'Engrossed' definitions:
Definition of 'engrossed'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Giving or marked by complete attention to; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped]
adjective
Written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document
Definition of 'Engrossed'
From: GCIDE
- Engross \En*gross"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrossed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engrossing.] [F., fr. pref. en- (L. in) + gros gross, grosse, n., an engrossed document: cf. OF. engrossir, engroissier, to make thick, large, or gross. See Gross.]
- 1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Waves . . . engrossed with mud. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To amass. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment. [1913 Webster]
- Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy the attention completely; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power. [1913 Webster]
- Engrossed bill (Legislation), one which has been plainly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage.
- Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style of writing suitable for engrossing legal documents, legislative bills, etc.
- Syn: To absorb; swallow up; imbibe; consume; exhaust; occupy; forestall; monopolize. See Absorb. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'engrossed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- absorbed in,
- abstracted,
- assiduous,
- autograph,
- autographic,
- bemused,
- buried in,
- buried in thought,
- busy,
- calligraphic,
- castle-building,
- caught up in,
- chirographic,
- consumed,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- cursive,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- deep,
- devoted,
- devoted to,
- diligent,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engaged,
- engaged in thought,
- engrossed in,
- engrossed in thought,
- faraway,
- flowing,
- graphic,
- graphoanalytic,
- graphologic,
- graphometric,
- half-awake,
- holograph,
- holographic,
- immersed,
- immersed in,
- immersed in thought,
- in a reverie,
- in longhand,
- in shorthand,
- in the clouds,
- in writing,
- industrious,
- inscribed,
- intent,
- intent on,
- introspective,
- involved,
- italic,
- italicized,
- longhand,
- lost,
- lost in,
- lost in thought,
- manuscript,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- monomaniacal,
- monopolized,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- museful,
- musing,
- napping,
- nodding,
- oblivious,
- obsessed,
- occupied,
- on paper,
- penciled,
- penned,
- pensive,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupied,
- printed,
- rapt,
- running,
- scriptorial,
- scriptural,
- sedulous,
- shorthand,
- single-minded,
- somewhere else,
- stargazing,
- studious,
- studying,
- stylographic,
- submerged,
- submerged in,
- swept up,
- taken up,
- taken up with,
- totally absorbed,
- transported,
- unconscious,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped,
- wrapped in,
- wrapped in thought,
- wrapped up,
- wrapped up in,
- written