Meaning of ABSORBED
Pronunciation: | | ab'sorbd
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- [adj] taken in through the pores of a surface; "the absorbed water expanded the sponge"
- [adj] wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her totally engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought"
- [adj] retained without reflection; "the absorbed light intensity"
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| Synonyms: | | absorbable, attentive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, unreflected, wrapped |
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| Related Terms: | | absent, absentminded, absorbed in, abstracted, bemused, buried, buried in, buried in thought, castle-building, caught up in, concentrating, contemplating, contemplative, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep, devoted, devoted to, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in, engrossed in thought, enmeshed in, entangled in, faraway, far-gone, half-awake, immersed, immersed in, immersed in thought, implicated in, in a reverie, in the clouds, intent, intent on, introspective, involved, involved in, lost, lost in, lost in thought, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, obsessed, occupied, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, single-minded, somewhere else, stargazing, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up, taken up with, tied up in, totally absorbed, transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in, wrapped in thought, wrapped up, wrapped up in |
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