absorbed
adjective
deeply interested or involved; preoccupied.
unabsorbed
-
a word derived from
absorbed.
Example Sentences
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Traditional oral iron supplements can help, but they often leave behind unabsorbed iron that irritates the digestive tract and triggers inflammation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2025
In the 8 October 2020 issue of Nature, Lenert and his colleagues reported a mirror able to reflect nearly 99% of unabsorbed infrared photons back into the heat source.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2022
One is to add an extra layer to a cell's back to reflect unabsorbed light back through it a second time.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2020
Possibly it was this positioning — intimate but arm’s-length — that encouraged Arabia to import foreign styles, but let them stay foreign, unabsorbed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
They also knew that they would never be safe from renewed attack, as the larger half of the coveted region, in the Low Countries, Luxemburg, and Lorraine, was still unabsorbed.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
