Engrossed

Definitions: Engrossed

Engrossed

Adjective

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".

2. Written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document.

Date "engrossed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Engrossed

Synonyms: absorbed (adj), enwrapped (adj), intent (adj), rapt (adj), wrapped (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attention	Adjective: attentive, mindful, observant, regardful; alive to, awake to; observing; Verb: alert, open-eyed; intent on, taken up with, occupied with, engaged in; engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt, transfixed, riveted, mesmerized, hypnotized; glued to (the TV); breathless; preoccupied; (inattentive); watchful; (careful); breathless, undistracted, upon the stretch; on the watch; (expectant).
Inattention	Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Engrossed

English words defined with "engrossed": absorbed, Absorbedly ♦ Chirograph, Chirographer of fines ♦ Engrossed bill, enwrapped ♦ Immersed, intent ♦ rapt ♦ To be wrapped up in, To bind up in ♦ wrapped. (references)

Specialty definitions using "engrossed": Minims. (references)

Etymologies containing "engrossed": Engross. (references)

Author	Date	Quotation
US Constitution	1791	On the 17th of September, 1787, the Constitution as engrossed and agreed upon was signed by all the members present, except Mr. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In the meantime, engrossed in this study, which took up all his time, as well as all his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands more.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It's common for marijuana users to become engrossed with ordinary sights, sounds, or tastes, and trivial events may seem extremely interesting or funny. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Engrossed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 74.16% of the time. "Engrossed" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	74.16%	66	41,290
Lexical Verb (past tense)	17.98%	16	87,710
Adjective (general or positive)	7.87%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	89	N/A

Expressions using "engrossed": be engrossed in one's work ♦ become engrossed ♦ become engrossed in ♦ become engrossed in reading ♦ Engrossed bill ♦ engrossed in. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "engrossed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhytem në lexim (become engrossed in reading). (various references)

Arabic		‏مستغرق (absorbed in, deep, engrossed in, immersed, lost in, preoccupied with, rapt). (various references)

Bulgarian		зачитам се (be absorbed in book, become engrossed in reading). (various references)

Chinese		專心 (absorption, concentrate, concentration), 大字书写 (Engross, Engrossing). (various references)

Czech		upoutat (become engrossed in reading, captivate, capture, catch his eye, fix, grip, tie down). (various references)

Finnish		syventyä (become absorbed in, get engrossed in, go deep into). (various references)

German		beschlagnahmte (confiscated, embargoed, impounded, sequestrated), beansprucht (engrosses). (various references)

Greek		απορροφωμένος (engrossed in). (various references)

Hungarian		lekötött (lockup), elfoglalt (busy, engaged, occupied, to be swamped, to be tied up). (various references)

Indonesian		kesengsem (engrossed in, highly attracted to something). (various references)

Italian		raccolto (collected, crop, crop of grapes, gathered, harvest, harvested crops, haul, picked, set, snug, vintage, yield), assorto (absorbed, preoccupied), assorbito (absorbed, adsorbate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		耽る (to be absorbed in, to be engrossed in, to be lost in, to be obsessed by, to give oneself up to, to indulge in), 耽ける (to be absorbed in, to be engrossed in, to be lost in, to be obsessed by, to give oneself up to, to indulge in), 登り詰める (to be engrossed in, to go to the top), 上り詰める (to be engrossed in, to go to the top). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふける (to advance, to age, to be absorbed in, to be engrossed in, to be lost in, to be obsessed by, to become ready to eat, to change with age, to get late, to give oneself up to, to indulge in, to spoil from weathering, to wear on), のぼりつめる (to be engrossed in, to go to the top). (various references)

Norwegian		oppslukt. (various references)

Pig Latin		engrosseday

Romanian		preocupat (busy, preoccupied, solicitous, thoughtful). (various references)

Russian		зачитаться (be absorbed in a book, become engrossed in reading). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zadubljen (absorbed, immersed). (various references)

Spanish		absorto (absorbed, deep, lost, preoccupied, rapt). (various references)

Swedish		försjunka i läsning (become engrossed in reading). (various references)

Turkish		meşgul (busy, concerned, engaged, full, intent, occupied, up and doing), dalmış (absorbed, immersed, intent, involved, lost in, submersed, wrapped, wrapt), dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, distrait, dreamy, far away, far off, faraway, glassy, lost, meditative, moony, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, self-absorbed, stargazer, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vacuous, vague, wandering, wistful, woolgathering), düşünceye dalmış (contemplative, immersed in thought, lost, plunged in thought). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Engrossed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encrossed, engrosse, ingrossed, negresse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "engrossed" (pronounced ungrō"st)
5	-g r ō" s t	grossed.
4	-r ō" s t	roast.
3	-ō" s t	boast, coast, diagnosed, ghost, host, misdiagnosed, most, post, riposte, toast.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-n-o-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: endorses.
	-2 letters: endorse, engross, genders, gessoed, grossed, redness, resends, senders, senores, sonders.
	-3 letters: denser, donees, dosers, dosser, drones, edgers, egress, enders, erodes, eroses, gender, genres, genros, geodes, gnoses, goners, gorses, greeds, greens, ogress, redoes, redone, redons, resend, resods, seders, sedges, segnos, sender, senors, sensed, sensor, serges, sneers, snored, snores, sonder, sondes, sorned.
	-4 letters: deers, denes, dense, doers, doges, donee, dongs, doser, doses, drees, dregs, dress, drone, dross, edger, edges, egers, ender, ernes, erode, erose, erses, genes, genre, genro, geode, gesso, goers, goner, gored, gores, gorse, greed, green, grees, gross, needs, nerds, nodes, nosed, noses, ogees, ogres, redes, redon, redos, reeds, reges, rends, resod, rosed, roses, seder, sedge, seeds, seers, segno, segos, sends, senor, sense, sered, seres, serge, sneds, sneer, snogs, snore, sonde, sones, songs, sords, sores, sorns.
	-5 letters: deer, dees, dene, dens, dere, doer, does, doge, dogs, done, dong, dons, dore, dors, dose, doss, dree, dreg, edge, eger, egos, ends, engs, eons, ergo, ergs, erne, erns, eros, eses, geds, geed, gees, gene, gens, gods, goer, goes, gone, gore, gree, need, nerd, ness, node, nods, noes, nogs, nose, odes, ogee, ogre, ones, ores, oses, rede, redo, reds, reed, rees, regs, rend, rode, rods, roes, rose, seed, seen, seer, sees, sego, segs, send, sene, sere, sers, sned, snog, sods, sone, song, sons, sord, sore, sorn.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-n-o-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: congressed.
	+2 letters: overdesigns.
	+3 letters: androgeneses, androgenesis, groundsheets, hydrogenases, overdressing, redigestions.
	+4 letters: crossbreeding, dangerousness, decompressing, grandioseness, predigestions, serodiagnoses.
	+5 letters: dehydrogenases, desegregations, deuteragonists, droughtinesses, forebodingness, groundlessness, groundskeepers.
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