absorbing
extremely interesting; deeply engrossing: an absorbing drama.
Origin of absorbing
1Other words from absorbing
- ab·sorb·ing·ly, adverb
- non·ab·sorb·ing, adjective
- un·ab·sorb·ing, adjective
- un·ab·sorb·ing·ly, adverb
Words Nearby absorbing
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use absorbing in a sentence
An absorbing and nuanced blend of philosophy and science, the book explores what we owe the nonhuman world.
‘Wild Souls’ explores what we owe animals in a human-dominated world | Jonathan Lambert | July 26, 2021 | Science NewsImmersion in an absorbing experience, she suspects, might pull people out of themselves enough to allow healing.
The answer turned out to be not just surprisingly complex, but also uniquely absorbing.
The Real World Homecoming: New York Is a Bittersweet Glimpse at Everything Reality TV Could've Been | Judy Berman | March 4, 2021 | TimeOne of Perry’s unique talents is his ability to tell what is essentially the same story over and over again, while continually finding ways to make it fresh and absorbing.
‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past | Bill Sheehan | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostOften, they’re provocative, absorbing or, at the very least, brain candy.
‘Memorial’ is one of the best books of the year | Kathi Wolfe | November 27, 2020 | Washington Blade
He pauses, absorbing the sunshine streaming into his garden.
The central rule of the game is kill or be killed, and playing it is utterly absorbing.
We know that Mockingbird, played by Adrianne Palicki, will be making an appearance, as well as the absorbing Man.
The Leaner, Meaner Season 2 of ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ | Jason Lynch | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWall Street Journal: “[D]eeply researched and totally absorbing[.]”
Her time with Dr. Simpson formed “the happiest and most absorbing years” of her life.
Death Became Her: Molly Lefebure’s Wartime Years of Murder and Suicide | Tim Teeman | April 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNaturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanHence if the reader is to be ensnared into absorbing something useful, it must be hidden somehow among the flowers.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockSo it behooved them to find something absorbing to keep their attention keyed up to the proper pitch.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseAfter that he had nearly forgotten her in his absorbing efforts to keep the right side of his uncle, and entertain Amy.
The Cromptons | Mary J. HolmesIt has succeeded not in driving out, as I think it has been erroneously held, but in absorbing Buddhism.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma Gandhi
British Dictionary definitions for absorbing
/ (əbˈsɔːbɪŋ, -ˈzɔːb-) /
occupying one's interest or attention; engrossing; gripping
Derived forms of absorbing
- absorbingly, adverb
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse