Usually means: Engrossed in thoughts, not present.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word preoccupied:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. preoccupied: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preoccupied: Merriam-Webster
  3. preoccupied: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preoccupied: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preoccupied: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preoccupied: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preoccupied, preoccupied: Wordnik
  8. preoccupied: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. preoccupied: Wiktionary
  10. preoccupied: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. preoccupied: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. preoccupied: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Preoccupied, preoccupied: Dictionary.com
  14. preoccupied: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Preoccupied: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Preoccupied: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. preoccupied: Rhymezone
  18. preoccupied: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. preoccupied: FreeDictionary.org
  20. preoccupied: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. preoccupied: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. preoccupied: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preoccupied: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preoccupied: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See preoccupy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Prepossessed; biased.
adjective:  (now rare) Already occupied.
adjective:  (taxonomy, not comparable) Describing a taxonomic name not available for use because it is already used for another.
adjective:  Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.

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