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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

ChatGPT

  1. absorbed

    Absorbed refers to having taken in or soaked up a substance, energy, information, or impact thoroughly and completely. It can pertain to physical entities such as liquids, gases or energy, or to mental processes like concentrating fully on something or assimilating knowledge or information. It implies engrossment or total engagement in a situation or context.

  2. absorbed

    Absorbed generally refers to the process of taking in or assimilating something, completely engaging or engrossing oneself in a particular activity or interest. It can also refer to the scientific process in which a substance, energy, or light is taken in by another substance.

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. 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.

  2. Alice Wu:

    I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life.

  3. Savanth Sebastian:

    The jobs lost in mining are well and truly being more than absorbed in other parts of the economy.

  4. Kristen Gillespie:

    The Americans have painted themselves into a corner, left to work only with so-called moderates, who at this point have mostly been kidnapped, killed, exiled or absorbed into Islamist factions.

  5. Natalia Goroshko:

    There is lots of free time now and I loved how people were starting to become absorbed by art.

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