Synonyms for absorbing
æbˈsɔr bɪŋ, -ˈzɔr-ab·sorb·ing

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1. absorbingadjective

   Synonyms:
   engrossing, fascinating

2. absorbingadjective

   Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest.

   An absorbing pursuit.

   Synonyms:
   fascinating, engrossing

3. absorbingadjective

   allowing a process to enter it, but not to leave it.

   Synonyms:
   engrossing, fascinating

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1. absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping, rivetingadjective

   capable of arousing and holding the attention

   "a fascinating story"

   Synonyms:
   bewitching, fascinating, engrossing, riveting, captivating, entrancing, enchanting, gripping, enthralling

   Antonyms:
   uninteresting

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1. absorbingadjective

   Synonyms:
   engrossing, engaging, fascinating

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1. List of paraphrases for "absorbing":

   absorptive, acquiring

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1. John K. Hutchens:

   I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched.

2. Boris Johnson:

   One column a week was absorbing enough money to pay for what, five reporters ? the constant history of the Telegraph over the last 15 years has been cuts to editorial because the owners are insistent the company had to hit the profit target, And yet you've also got him sitting in the middle of your budget, this line item of £ 275,000 per year for one column a week.

3. Manjunath Sadashiva:

   A large number of young people having such undesirable attitudes toward violence against women - including girls themselves - is alarming, these are school-going and college-going students – they’re not uneducated or non-literate people. These are people from cities, not even rural areas... These attitudes that students are displaying are potentially what they are absorbing from society at large, from their families.

4. David Andrews:

   What is most alarming about these findings is that chemicals are absorbing into the body in significant amounts and the ingredients have not been fully tested for safety.

5. Henry Thomas Buckle:

   If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.