Meaning & use

absorbed

adjective·Academic

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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