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. Danielle Brune Sigler:

   The characters drive a lot of the interest in Alice, a lot of people have absorbed Alice through films, through toys and through condensed versions but have not necessarily read the original.

2. Chi Lo:

   We have a lot of bodies being absorbed by low-paying jobs, which keeps them employed, but in the meantime, high-end industrial labour is shedding people.

3. 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, what we are still missing is evidence of forecast upgrades on the back of the earnings season - it's still a bit early for that.

4. Jessica Vaughan:

   The result is that many gang members and other thugs and miscreants are allowed to remain in the county in defiance of immigration laws and causing problems like this, montgomery, like others that have absorbed a large number of the Central American youths, has experienced a noticeable uptick in violence that has been attributed to gangs like MS-13, and this has been especially acute in the high schools.

5. Joseph Baena:

   Oh, it's a huge, huge honor. You know, I mean, all these huge names, like Mark Wahlberg, [Dwayne] The Rock [Johnson], my father – it's really just a big honor and privilege to be even considered as one of the covers and let alone the youngest cover in Men's Health, so, you know, I still haven't absorbed everything. I still haven't let it all in yet. I was just talking to my mom a little bit ago, and I was tearing up.