PREOCCUPIED

haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up

(adjective) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; “became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle”; “was absolutely obsessed with the girl”; “got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children”; “he was taken up in worry for the old woman”

bemused, lost, preoccupied

(adjective) deeply absorbed in thought; “as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class”; “lost in thought”; “a preoccupied frown”

PREOCCUPY

preoccupy

(verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; “His work preoccupies him”; “The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else”

preoccupy

(verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance; “the army preoccupied the hills”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

preoccupied (comparative more preoccupied, superlative most preoccupied)

Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.

(taxonomy, not comparable) Describing a scientific name that was previously used, a junior homonym.

Verb

preoccupied

simple past tense and past participle of preoccupy

Source: Wiktionary

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PREOCCUPY

Pre*oc"cu*py, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Preoccupied (-pid); p. pr. & vb. n. Preoccupying.] Etym: [Cf. F. préoccuper. See Preoccupate, Occupy.]

1. To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.

2. To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice. I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave something to reflections than to preoccupy his judgment. Arbuthnot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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