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ab·sorbed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrappedadjective

    giving or marked by complete attention to

    "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought"

  2. absorbedadjective

    retained without reflection

    "the absorbed light intensity"

Wiktionary

  1. absorbedadjective

    fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed

  2. absorbedadjective

    taken in by a body without reflection

  3. absorbedadjective

    taken by through the pores of a surface

Webster Dictionary

  1. Absorbed

    of Absorb

Editors Contribution

  1. absorbedverb

    Verb form of the word absorb.

    They absorbed the information and retained it easily.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of absorbed in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of absorbed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of absorbed in a Sentence

  1. Albert Camus, The Stranger:

    I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

  2. C. C. Colton:

    How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

  3. Barbara Carreno:

    It can kill you if just a few grains gets absorbed through the skin.

  4. Abdool Karim:

    Because it's in the gel formulation, it leads to very high levels in the genital tract and very low levels in the blood, so very little is absorbed and Connie Celum get very limited side effects, we did see a slight increase in mild diarrhea and it wasn't statistically significant.

  5. Fayez Seraj:

    The armed groups will remain in their camps until an agreement is found with them about whether their members will be integrated and young people absorbed within certain programs according the security plan.

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