All 9 Uses of
preoccupied
in
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- GEORGE (Preoccupied) I don't want to kiss you, Martha.†
Act 1preoccupied = took up the attention of
- GEORGE: (Nastily, but he is so preoccupied he hardly notices his own tone) For what?†
Act 1
- I seem preoccupied with history.†
Act 1
- (He strikes a pose, his hand over his heart, his head raised, his voice stentorian) "I am preoccupied with history.†
Act 1
- MARTHA: George is not preoccupied with history......George is preoccupied with the History Department.†
Act 1
- MARTHA: George is not preoccupied with history......George is preoccupied with the History Department.†
Act 1
- George is preoccupied with the History Department because .... GEORGE: ....because he is not the History Department, but is only in the History Department.†
Act 1
- GEORGE (Preoccupied) Martha?†
Act 2
- GEORGE (Seemingly relaxed and preoccupied, never looking): Oh, that's nice.
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Definitions:
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(1)
(preoccupied) busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, preoccupied can mean that someone has already inhabited or taken something.