Meaning & use
absorbed
Completely engaged or interested in something, to the exclusion of everything else.
See it in a sentence
She was so absorbed in her book that she missed her bus stop.
He remained absorbed in the puzzle for hours, ignoring everyone around him.
A note on using this word
Absorbed is typically followed by in, as in absorbed in a task, distinguishing it from the related sense of a substance being absorbed by a surface.
Words with a similar meaning
engrossedimmersed
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Words with an opposite meaning
distractedindifferent
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