absorbed

adjbeing completely occupied mentally

Synonyms for absorbed

adj being completely occupied mentally

Antonyms for absorbed

addicted

adjective. dependent on something, compulsive

Word Origin & History

early 15c., from Middle French absorber (Old French assorbir, 13c.), from Latin absorbere "to swallow up," from ab- "from" (see ab-) + sorbere "suck in," from PIE root *srebh- "to suck, absorb" (cf. Armenian arbi "I drank," Greek rhopheo "to sup greedily up, gulp down," Lithuanian srebiu "to drink greedily"). Figurative meaning "to completely grip (one's) attention" is from 1763. Related: Absorbed; absorbing.

Example Sentences for absorbed

He stood in deep shadow and the girl had been too absorbed in the play to note his coming.

He sat for some minutes in silence, and closed his eyes as if absorbed in thought.

They absorbed her atmosphere and after each followed a period of mental asphyxy.

They strolled together up the road past him, absorbed in themselves.

She was so absorbed in her intense enjoyment that she forgot all about the old Colonel.

But it was his right ear that absorbed my attention—or rather, what was left of his right ear.

Philip, absorbed in his reverie, perceived him not, and continued his way.

For hours he remained on that spot, alone with his grief and absorbed in his prayer.

It was a dangerous desire, but it intoxicated and absorbed her.

So absorbed was she in her own spiritual inheritance that she quite forgot his pain.

absorbed

Synonyms for absorbed

Antonyms for absorbed

addicted

bemused

buried

caught up (in)

caught up in

absorbed

Synonyms for absorbed

Antonyms for absorbed

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