Synonyms for absorbed
ab·sorbed

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1. 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, thoughtless

   Antonyms:
   alert, attentive, on hand, prompt, ready, thoughtful, wide-awake

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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"

   Synonyms:
   clothed, cloaked, captive, engrossed, mantled, enwrapped, confined, wrapped, jailed, imprisoned, intent, draped

   Antonyms:
   inattentive, reflected

2. absorbedadjective

   retained without reflection

   "the absorbed light intensity"

   Synonyms:
   intent, enwrapped, engrossed, wrapped, captive

   Antonyms:
   inattentive, reflected

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1. List of paraphrases for "absorbed":

   adsorbed, engrossed, ingested, consumed, assimilated, accommodated

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1. Vincent Guenzi:

   Markets are in general regaining their composure, the earnings disappointments in the U.S. are being absorbed in Europe, largely down to the fact that valuations are not excessive... A debt bailout of Greece is also slowly getting underway.

2. Thomas Camara:

   In ten years, the refinery's total production will be absorbed by the national market and nothing will be left to export.

3. Victor Hugo:

   One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

4. Joellen Russell:

   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.

5. Voltaire:

   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.