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Definition: Engrossing |
EngrossingAdjective1. Capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "engrossing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonyms: EngrossingSynonyms: absorbing (adj), fascinating (adj), gripping (adj), riveting (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Interesting, engrossing, mesmerizing, riveting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Engrossing |
| English words defined with "engrossing": Chirographer, Chirography ♦ Engrossing hand ♦ Text pen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "engrossing": Gate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "engrossing": Engross. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | With calmness, Cosette, his single engrossing care, returned to his thoughts |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Engrossing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "Engrossing" is used about 14 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 (-ing form) | 64.29% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "engrossing": Engrossing hand. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "engrossing": all-engrossing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "engrossing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увлекателен (absorbing, enthralling, exciting, interesting, readable), много интересен (absorbing, juicy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 大字书写 (Engross, Engrossed). (various references) | |
Czech | poutající pozornost. (various references) | |
French | palpitant, captivant, absorbant. (various references) | |
German | beanspruchend (claimed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lekötõ, figyelmet lekötő (absorbing). (various references) | |
Italian | emozionante (emotional, eventful, exciting, fascinating, moving, thrilling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | engrossingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cativante (attractive, captivating, catch, catchy, charming, engaging, enthralling, lovable, lovely, prepossessing, stunner, sweet, taking, winsome), absorvente (absorbing, adsorbent, adsorbing, bibulous, overmastering, spongy). (various references) | |
Romanian | captivant (absorbing, captivating, charming, engaging, exciting, fascinating, gripping, thrilling), acaparator (absorbing, accumulator, acquisitive, buyer-up, covetous, food hoarder, forestalling, grabber, grasping, greedy, money making, money-grabbing, monopolizer, predatory), absorbit (absorbedly, absorbent, absorbing, rapt, sucking-in), absorbant (absorbent, absorbing, absorptive). (various references) | |
Russian | всепоглощающий (all-absorbing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zanosan (captivating, enthusiastic, ravishing, unctuous). (various references) | |
Spanish | monopolizador, fascinante (bewitching, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, glamorous, gripping, spellbinding), absorbente (absorbant, absorbent, absorber, absorbing, absorptive, bibulous). (various references) | |
Swedish | textning (engross, lettering). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งทำให้ใจจ"จ่อ. (various references) | |
Turkish | zihni kurcalayan, ilginç (absorbing, amazing, curious, exciting, far out, fastmoving, gripping, interesting, juicy, kooky, picturesque, quaint, quirky, taking), düşündürücü, çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | захоплюючий (absorbing, admirable, breath-taking, catching, catchy, entrancing, exciting, intriguing, spectacular), поглинаючий (absorbent, occlusive). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | choán hết thì giờ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "engrossing": engrossingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "engrossing" (pronounced ungrō"sing) |
| 6 | -g r ō" s i ng | grossing. |
| 4 | -ō" s i ng | diagnosing, dosing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: ginsengs, goriness, grossing, ironness, negronis, sergings, singsong, sniggers. | |
-3 letters: engross, ensigns, eringos, gingers, ginners, ginseng, gringos, grisons, ignores, ingress, negroni, noggins, nosings, regions, resigns, seniors, sensing, serging, signers, signore, signors, singers, sinners, snigger, snoring, soggier, sonnies, sonsier, sorings, sorning. | |
-4 letters: enosis, ensign, eosins, eringo, essoin, genros, ginger, ginner, girons, gneiss, gnoses, gnosis, goings. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: congressing. | |
+2 letters: engrossingly. | |
+3 letters: forgivingness, nonaggression, nonaggressive, organogenesis. | |
+4 letters: antiaggression, nonaggressions. | |
+5 letters: forgivingnesses, nonsegregations, unforgivingness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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