preoccupied

a mind that was preoccupied with financial worries.

I was too preoccupied to hear the bell.

You look preoccupied: what are you thinking of?

his mother was preoccupied with paying the bills.

the masses were too preoccupied by prosaic day-to-day concerns.

The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind.

She is affable enough when she is not preoccupied with business problems.

she was withdrawn and preoccupied, hardly able to converse with her mother.

You were too preoccupied to notice me at the bus stop yesterday.

Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.