All 5 Uses of
preoccupied
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- In his childhood and youth he was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different, from a sort of inner preoccupation entirely personal and unconcerned with other people, but so important to him that he seemed, as it were, to forget others on account of it.†
Chpt 1
- But it must not be supposed that his mind was preoccupied with his face and his height.†
Chpt 10 *
- But he was very much preoccupied at that time with something quite apart from that.†
Chpt 11
- The visitor waited and sat exactly like a poor relation who had come down from his room to keep his host company at tea, and was discreetly silent, seeing that his host was frowning and preoccupied.†
Chpt 11
- He had become terribly preoccupied since the trial; sometimes he would be silent for half an hour together, and seemed to be pondering something heavily and painfully, oblivious of everything about him.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(preoccupied) busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done