engaged

Definitions

Occupied, involved, or busy with a particular activity.

Having formally agreed to get married.

Partially or fully interlocked or meshed, as with mechanical gears.

Examples

The students were fully engaged in the science experiment.

They decided to get engaged after dating for three years.

The company is currently engaged in a new marketing strategy.

Synonyms

occupied busy involved committed betrothed absorbed employed

Antonyms

idle unoccupied free disengaged available unattached inactive