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ab·sorbed
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
absorbed
As regards mental action, absorbed, abstracted, and preoccupied refer to the cause, absent or absent-minded to the effect. The man absorbed in one thing will appear absent in others. A preoccupied person may seem listless and thoughtless, but the really listless and thoughtless have not mental energy to be preoccupied. The absent-minded man is oblivious of ordinary matters, because his thoughts are elsewhere. One who is preoccupied is intensely busy in thought; one may be absent-minded either through intense concentration or simply through inattention, with fitful and aimless wandering of thought. Compare ABSTRACT.
Synonyms:
absent, absent-minded, abstracted, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, listless, negligent, oblivious, preoccupied, thoughtlessAntonyms:
alert, attentive, on hand, prompt, ready, thoughtful, wide-awake
Princeton's WordNet
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"
Synonyms:
clothed, cloaked, captive, engrossed, mantled, enwrapped, confined, wrapped, jailed, imprisoned, intent, drapedAntonyms:
inattentive, reflectedabsorbedadjective
retained without reflection
"the absorbed light intensity"
Synonyms:
intent, enwrapped, engrossed, wrapped, captiveAntonyms:
inattentive, reflected
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "absorbed":
adsorbed, engrossed, ingested, consumed, assimilated, accommodated
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#5534 | intent | |
#6793 | absent | |
#9076 | wrapped | |
#11901 | consumed | |
#11922 | confined | |
#13521 | absorbed | |
#15958 | captive | |
#20492 | imprisoned | |
#20715 | accommodated | |
#22331 | jailed | |
#24087 | indifferent | |
#25698 | negligent | |
#28737 | clothed | |
#33501 | oblivious | |
#33869 | engrossed | |
#34398 | draped | |
#39164 | ingested | |
#40280 | preoccupied | |
#40806 | assimilated | |
#41382 | abstracted | |
#48248 | adsorbed | |
#57822 | cloaked | |
#63892 | thoughtless | |
#69724 | inattentive | |
#81711 | listless | |
#98935 | heedless | |
#154227 | mantled |
How to use absorbed in a sentence?
One out of eight molecules of CO2 that is added to the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean around Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, within a year, this is the ocean to study. This is the critical component of our Earth's climate system.
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
What we really like about this bill is it's something that can happen sooner rather than later, and it can be absorbed and included into whatever The FDA is doing to improve, as well, looking ahead to the next near, or next five years, just really continuing the conversation on rare disease.
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.
It seems likely that some of it is getting absorbed into the blood long after the sunscreen applications and in part that is why levels in blood stay high weeks after application, the skin is not a perfect barrier and so absorption of small amounts of chemicals from sunscreens( and indeed other skin care products such as cosmetics) is to be expected.
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