Definition of Preoccupied

Preoccupied

of Preoccupy

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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
Raul Julia

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
Sheryl Crow

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
Betty Ford

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
Brian Ferneyhough

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
Marguerite Young

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.
Eriq La Salle

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
Val Kilmer

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
Douglass North

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
Paul Berg

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.
Robert Jay Lifton

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
Lincoln Ellsworth

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Preoccupied Translations

preoccupied in German is vertieft
preoccupied in Italian is assorto
preoccupied in Spanish is preocupado
preoccupied in Swedish is upptagen

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