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

Uvalde County also reported its first case, bringing the total number of Texas cases to 28, with 22 active and 6 inactive.

— Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 1 July 2026
It is stored in an inactive form in cells such as the liver, spleen, bone marrow, and immune system—acting as the body’s reserve bank, indicating how much iron is available for future use.

— Tatiana Dias, Vogue, 30 June 2026

Definition of inactive

Adjective

If the flight is not full, the middle seat might remain unoccupied, giving both travelers extra room to stretch out.

— Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
There is growing interest today in the largely unoccupied FR3 band, which spans roughly 7 to 24 gigahertz, situated between crowded low/mid-bands and the much higher millimeter-wave frequencies.

— Shivendra Panwar, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2026

Definition of unoccupied

Adjective

As a result, the percentage of people who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more has increased to 27% from 23% at this time last year.

— Courtney Connley-Hampton, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Quitting the search Within the bureau’s household survey, where the participation numbers are drawn, is a story of a consistently contracting labor force potentially driven by unemployed workers simply giving up.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 2 July 2026

Definition of unemployed

Adjective

His long white oval scleras and perfect-circle black pupils, sometimes open and sometimes closed, are always inexplicably expressive—managing to seem happy, sad, scared, sleepy, shifty, angry, eager, alarmed, mischievous, or murderous.

— Casey Cep, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
Hualde says that some Pamplona residents rue his early promotion of the festival due to the ills of overtourism the sleepy provincial city is now experiencing.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026

Definition of sleepy

Adjective

For galaxies with a quiescent supermassive black hole, astronomers measure how quickly the stars tightly packed near the center of the galaxy are traveling.

— Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
As oil prices drop with the Iran war quiescent, US consumers might hope price rises could level off.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 25 June 2026