engrossed
adjective
completely occupied or absorbed, as by something that captures the mind or attention; showing or characterized by such absorption.
unengrossed
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a word derived from
engrossed.
Example Sentences
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But, more significantly to her feelings than that, he was also too immersed to offer her, in her ordeal of childbirth, the sympathy and the anxiety that, unengrossed, he would have shown.
From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
Over those portions unengrossed by cultivation or by architecture, shrubs and bushes and great beds of nettles assumed the most luxuriant and lively appearance.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
