bustling
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈbʌslɪŋ/
:
bullicioso
- The bustling market was filled with vendors shouting and customers bargaining.
- bustling city
- bustling streets
- bustling center
I mourn the decline of once thriving towns and bustling black business districts.
- I mourn the decline of once thriving towns and bustling black business districts.
- Our brain is a crowded chemistry lab bustling with nonstop neural conversations.
- Trade made Osaka a rich and bustling commercial centre.
- We create this bustling marketplace in which they can trade genetic wares.
Examples
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Maybe she had always lived in a sandwich shop in this bustling airport.
Fiction book (1994) -
As Maya civilization developed, many seaside villages evolved into bustling towns and trading ports.
Academic text (1991) -
Not exactly a bustling destination, if you know what I mean.
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Trade made Osaka a rich and bustling commercial centre.
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The market in Hebron is not the bustling place it used to be.
Blog text (27) -
The streets were narrower than I remembered, and full of bustling activity.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's a bustling place, this bank, but my alcove is a still pool of silence.
Fiction book (1997) -
We know that Bethlehem of Galilee was a bustling center of Jewish life around the time of Jesus' birth.
Academic text (2005) -
Hiroshima today is a bustling, beautiful city, scarred but healed.
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Autumn dusk: a swarm of pedestrians ascends the steps to the bustling street.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
Full of activity with many things to do
111
1.3
Having a lot of energy and enthusiasm
81
4.1
Full of energy and activity that makes people feel excited
65
3.9
Very busy with a lot of rushed, confusing activity
24
3.9
Happening very quickly with a lot of action
18
4.7
Loud and energetic, like a happy crowd or party
12
5.3
Full of excited noise, like people talking or bees
11
6.6
Full of energy and fast activity
5
9.9
Lively and exciting, like a busy party or club
2
6.0
Lively and full of fun, making people laugh
1
7.3
Very noisy and full of lively activity
1
4.8
Full of lively activity and excitement that attracts people
1
4.1
Very successful and making a lot of money
1
3.4
A town or business that is growing quickly and doing well
1
4.7
Full of many living things, often moving about
Full of a low humming sound or busy, noisy activity
Loud and lively in a wild way
Showing lively, happy energy
Idioms
How Busy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bustling comes from the word bustle, which means 'to move in a busy, noisy way', like people hurrying and talking in a market. So a bustling place is full of lively, energetic activity.