Antonyms for absorbedab·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.

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

   Synonyms:
   absent, absent-minded, abstracted, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, listless, negligent, oblivious, preoccupied, thoughtless

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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"

   Antonyms:
   inattentive, reflected

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

2. absorbedadjective

   retained without reflection

   "the absorbed light intensity"

   Antonyms:
   inattentive, reflected

   Synonyms:
   intent, enwrapped, engrossed, wrapped, captive

How to use absorbed in a sentence?

1. Jamie Lynn:

   … I think that Britney was obviously going through her own s--t, but I think I was so absorbed in my own s--t, that I couldn't even think about that.

2. 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.

3. Alice Wu:

   I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life.

4. Jose Castroviejo:

   There is a 'freecycle' element, anything you don't want that's reusable is left in a hallway and usually within 24 hours it is re-absorbed into the community.

5. David Paich:

   Jeff absorbed a lot of global and ethnic music as a child, that’s why I asked him to co-write ‘Africa’ because I knew he would bring that to the song.

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