Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deeply involved with |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, bound-up, buried, busy, consumed, deep, eat sleep and breathe, engaged, engrossed, intent, into*, mesmerized, occupied, preoccupied, rapt, spellbound, taken up, tied up, turned on, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, neglectful, negligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | determined, resolute |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, alert, attending, attentive, bent, bound, committed, concentrated, concentrating, decided, decisive, deep, eager, earnest, engaged, engrossed, enthusiastic, firm, fixed, hell-bent, immersed, industrious, intense, minding, occupied, piercing, preoccupied, rapt, resolved, riveted, set, settled, steadfast, steady, watchful, watching, wrapped up |
| Notes: | intent implies a sustained unbroken commitment or purpose, while intention would imply an intermittent resolution or an initial aim or plan |
| Antonyms: | distracted, irresolute |
| Main Entry: | lost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distracted, dreaming |
| Synonyms: | absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, bemused, bewildered, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, entranced, faraway, feeble, going in circles, ignorant, inconscient, musing, perplexed, preoccupied, rapt, spellbound, taken in, taken up, unconscious, wasted |
| Antonyms: | attentive, aware, cognizant |
| Main Entry: | oblivious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware, ignorant |
| Synonyms: | absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, amnesic, blind*, blundering, careless, deaf, disregardful, distracted, dreamy, forgetful, forgetting, gone, heedless, inattentive, incognizant, inconversant, insensible, neglectful, negligent, not all there, out to lunch, overlooking, preoccupied, regardless, spacey, strung out, unacquainted, unconcerned, unconscious, undiscerning, unfamiliar, uninformed, uninstructed, unknowing, unmindful, unnoticing, unobservant, unrecognizing, unwitting, zonked |
| Notes: | oblivious means lacking all memory or lacking active conscious awareness or knowledge, while obvious means easily perceived or understood |
| Antonyms: | aware, concerned, conscious, mindful, sensitive, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obsessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consumed, driven about belief, desire |
| Synonyms: | bedeviled, beset, bewitched, captivated, controlled, dogged, dominated, eat sleep and breathe, engrossed, fiendish, fixated, gripped, harassed, haunted, have on the brain, held, hooked, hung up on, immersed in, infatuated, into*, overpowered, plagued, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, really into, seized, taken over, tied up, tormented, troubled, turned on, up to here in, wound up with, wrapped up in |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, unconcerned |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meditative, solemn |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, abstracted, attentive, cogitative, contemplative, dreamy, grave, musing, pondering, preoccupied, reflecting, reflective, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, shallow |
| Main Entry: | rapt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbed, fascinated |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, abstracted, beguiled, bewitched, blissful, busy, captivated, carried away, caught up in, charmed, daydreaming, deep*, delighted, dreaming, ecstatic, employed, enamored, engaged, engrossed, enraptured, enthralled, entranced, gripped, happy, held, hung up, hypnotized, immersed, inattentive, intent, involved, lost, oblivious, occupied, overwhelmed, preoccupied, rapturous, ravished, spellbound, taken, transported, unconscious, wrapped, wrapped up |
| Notes: | rapt means deeply moved or wholly absorbed as in thought; wrapped means enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like |
| Antonyms: | disenchanted, repulsed, turned off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative, introspective |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, farsighted, grave, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, ruminative, serious, sober, studious, subjective, thinking, wise, wistful |
| Antonyms: | idiotic, negligent, obtuse, remiss, stupid, thoughtless |
| Main Entry: | absentminded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inattentive |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, daydreaming, distracted, distrait, dreaming, faraway, oblivious, preoccupied, unseeing |
| Antonyms: | alert, observant |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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