Learn English – “Multi-tasked woman” vs “Multitasking woman”

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When talking about a woman (or even man) who makes a lot of tasks at the same time, what's more appropriate or more common between the following sentences?

You are multi-tasked woman.

You are multitasking woman.

Google shows more than 50K results for multitasking woman, and a few hundreds results for multi-tasked. I wonder how a noun could be used as an adjective.

Best Answer

To me, there is a subtle difference in meaning here:

You are multi-tasked woman.

This states that the woman often/always has multiple tasks simultaneously assigned to her for completion, whether or not she is capable of doing so, whereas:

You are multitasking woman.

is a statement that the woman in question is currently in the act of completing multiple tasks at once, which carries some implication that she is capable of doing so. Furthermore, this may have been intended as:

You are [a] multitasking woman.

which would imply to me that the woman in question is seen to have some tangible capability to handle multiple tasks at once.

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