preoccupied

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preoccupied (comparative more preoccupied, superlative most preoccupied)

Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.
(taxonomy, not comparable) Describing a scientific name that was previously used, a junior homonym.
- 1931, John Allen Rowe, “A revision of the males of the nearctic species in the genus Fabriciella (Tachinidae)”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 24:
  In 1924 J. D. Tothill revised the nearctic species in the genus Fabriciella, a name proposed by Bezzi in 1906 to replace Fabricia Rob. D. which is preoccupied.

concerned with something else, distracted

Biatah Bidayuh: ibaat
Bulgarian: разсеян (bg) (razsejan)
Czech: zaujatý (čím), zaměstnaný (čím)
Dutch: afwezig (nl), in gedachten verzonken
Finnish: no equivalent term in Finnish, but see syventynyt (“absorbed”), keskittynyt (“focused”) (on something else), viedä huomio (“to take one's attention”), huomio oli muualla (“(I) was preoccupied”, literally “(my) attention was elsewhere”)
French: préoccupé (fr) m
German: gedankenverloren (de), in Gedanken woanders, tief beschäftigt
Greek: προβληματισμένος (el) (provlimatisménos)
Hungarian: belefeledkezett (hu)
Italian: preoccupato (it) m
Khmer: ខ្វល់ (km) (kvɑl)
Malay: leka
Manx: boirit
Maori: pakihaha, māharahara, warea (only used in the passive sense)
Polish: zatroskany (pl), zaniepokojony (pl), zafrapowany, zamyślony (pl), zmartwiony (pl)
Portuguese: preocupado (pt) m
Romanian: preocupat (ro)
Spanish: ensimismado (es), obsesionado (es)

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