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absorbingadjective holding the attention or provoking interestshell collecting can be so absorbing that you don't notice the tide coming in arresting, consuming, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, immersing, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting breathtaking, electric, electrifying, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, inspiring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrillingprovocative, tantalizingemphatic, showy, splashy, strikingalluring, attractive, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, spellbindinghypnotizing, mesmerizingcurious, odd, unusual, weirdamazing, astonishing, astounding, eventful, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous(or marvellous), surprising, wonderful, wondrousamusing, entertaining boring, drab, dry, dull, heavy, monotonous, tedious, uninteresting operose, tiresome, tiring, wearisome, wearyingsterile, unexcitingdreary, humdrum, pedantic, pedestriandemoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting absorbingverbpresent participle of absorbto take in (something liquid) through small openingsmost of the spilled water was absorbed by the tablecloth drinking, imbibing, soaking (up), sponging, sucking (up), taking up gulping, guzzling, quaffing, sipping, slurping, swallowing, swigging, swilling to hold the attention ofchatting on the phone doesn't absorb me so much that I can't do something else at the same time bemusing, busying, catching up, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, enwrapping, fascinating, gripping, immersing, interesting, intriguing, involving, occupying alluring, attracting, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, obsessinghypnotizing, mesmerizingdistracting, preoccupyinghogging, monopolizing catching one's eye boring, jading, palling, tiring, wearying to make a part of a body or systemlocal schools will seek to absorb the new immigrants into the regular curriculum as quickly as possible assimilating, co-opting, embodying, incorporating, integrating amalgamating, blending, combining, commingling, fusing, intermingling, merging, minglingacculturating, accustoming, conditioning, enculturating, habituating, naturalizing to make complete use ofcleaning the house absorbed the rest of his energy burning, consuming, depleting, devouring, draining, drawing down, exhausting, expending, playing out, spending, using up abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, reducingeating, usingbankrupting, cleaning (out), impoverishingcrippling, debilitating, disabling, enfeebling, sapping, undermining, weakeningdrying up, emptyingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), guzzling, lavishing, misspending, running through, squandering, throwing away, wasting running out of renewing, replacing augmenting, enlarging, increasingbolstering, enforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningrebuilding, repairing, restoring, revivingconserving, preserving, saving to put up with (something painful or difficult)somehow she managed to absorb whatever hardships life offered abiding, accepting, bearing, biding(chiefly dialect), brooking, countenancing, enduring, going, hacking, handling, meeting, pocketing, standing, sticking out, stomaching, supporting, sustaining, sweating out, taking, tolerating, wearing(British) allowing, permitting, suffering, swallowingreconciling (to)acquiescing, agreeing (with or to), assenting (to), capitulating, consenting (to), respecting, submitting (to), yielding (to) living with, lumping (it), standing for, toughing it out declining, dismissing, refusing, rejecting, repudiating, spurning, turning downcombating(or combatting), contesting, fighting, opposing, resistingavoiding, bypassing, circumventing, dodging, eluding, escaping, evading, missingabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from) in 1806 |