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. Chuck Long:

   He was just full of charisma, and you could tell he had some great leadership qualities, we connected really quick, just because he wasn’t a prima donna or anything. The kid wanted to learn and wanted to learn fast, and he absorbed things quickly.

2. Blaise Pascal:

   When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

3. Victor Hugo:

   A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

4. Alan Gayle:

   That the market absorbed the first rate hike in nearly a decade suggests that we can finish the year on a positive note.

5. Elizabeth Lombardo:

   As new moms we’re so absorbed with our baby and how overwhelming it is for us, that we forget our partner feels really left out.