Synonyms of busily

busily

adverb

as in actively

in a manner involving great or constant activity

the deadline is in two days, so everyone in the department has been working busily

Synonyms & Similar Words

• actively
• diligently
• vigorously
• industriously
• laboriously
• assiduously
• energetically
• tirelessly
• indefatigably

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• idly
• sleepily
• inactively
• lifelessly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of busily

Alabama has been busily demonstrating that the reverse is true, following a string of hideous botched lethal injection executions with a series of no less gruesome executions with nitrogen suffocation. — Maya Foa, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026

Behind the bar, yeast busily converted sugars into alcohol inside giant stainless steel fermentation tanks. — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2026

Concepción López Villegas was busily preparing her seaside restaurant for what may come. — Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

Not to be outdone, math-magicians on Capitol Hill have been busily subtracting workdays. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026

That concision is evident in an almost brutally economical edit and in sharp, precise writing which provides narrative elements and deftly sketches character before moving busily on. — Caspar Salmon, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026

No wonder More had so many imitators, who set about busily redrawing their own maps of the world. — Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026

As Scott Frost took to the practice field Monday to open UCF’s preseason football camp, construction workers a few hundred yards away busily put the finishing touches on the Roth Tower expansion at the Acrisure Bounce House Stadium. — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

The British are busily removing Winston Churchill from their banknotes, replacing him with an engraving of a hedgehog. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026