Dictionary Definition
engrossed adj
1 wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in
thought"; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her
totally engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this
fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare;
"rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: absorbed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped]
2 written formally in a large clear script, as a
deed or other legal document
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
engrossed- past of engross
Adjective
- preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absent,
absentminded,
absorbed, absorbed in,
abstracted, assiduous, autograph, autographic, bemused, buried in, buried in
thought, busy, calligraphic,
castle-building, caught up in, chirographic, consumed, contemplating, contemplative, cursive, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep, devoted, devoted to, diligent, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged, engaged in thought,
engrossed in, engrossed in thought, faraway, flowing, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, half-awake,
holograph, holographic, immersed, immersed in, immersed
in thought, in a reverie, in longhand, in shorthand, in the clouds,
in writing, industrious, inscribed, intent, intent on, introspective, involved, italic, italicized, longhand, lost, lost in, lost in thought,
manuscript, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, obsessed, occupied, on paper, penciled, penned, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, printed, rapt, running, scriptorial, scriptural, sedulous, shorthand, single-minded,
somewhere else, stargazing, studious, studying, stylographic, submerged, submerged in, swept
up, taken up, taken up with, totally absorbed, transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in, wrapped in
thought, wrapped up, wrapped up in, written