UNBUSY Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

unbusy

adjective

Definition of unbusy

as in inactive

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Recent Examples of unbusy Or, even better, until some productive, unbusy scientist clones me a sister-wife. — Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbusy

Adjective

Of the 200 records the county staff reviewed, 112 were associated with people whose registrations are canceled or inactive.

— Miles Parks, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026
The office found that more than half — 112 — had been canceled or were inactive, meaning no ballot was sent to those voters.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of inactive

Adjective

The aim is to make better use of satellite capacity that might otherwise sit idle when a system is outside its primary coverage area.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Overnight, one of the polishing tools had experienced an idle time of two hundred and nine seconds.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of idle

Adjective

With the help of license plate readers and other investigative efforts, police located the pickup near Clement and Mendocino avenues, which was unoccupied.

— Tim Fang, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
An unoccupied vehicle was stuck on the railroad tracks and was hit by a train, police said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of unoccupied

Adjective

The movement was formed in May 2026 to protest the government’s cancellation of medical school entrance exams and after India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant likened unemployed youth to cockroaches.

— Amrita Basu, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2026
Mainly because Larry was now unemployed and only had enough saved up for nine more months.

— Blake J. Harris, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of unemployed

Adjective

Meanwhile, angry residents continue to flood once-sleepy municipal board meetings, pressuring officials to reject data center proposals.

— Marc Levy, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
What was once a boring, sleepy issue where the PUC made decisions more or less in a vacuum is no longer the case.

— Jordan Blum, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026