Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an absorbed manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

Etymologies

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absorbed +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • From their vantage point behind the bulky transformer case he could see three men absorbedly regarding a large videoscreen.

    "High-Frequency War" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2009

  • From their vantage point behind the bulky transformer case he could see three men absorbedly regarding a large videoscreen.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • I was puzzled over your reasons for working so absorbedly on this thing, but now I know them and I think you're wasting your time and keeping your duaghter in needless danger.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Johnny Pez 2008

  • I was puzzled over your reasons for working so absorbedly on this thing, but now I know them and I think you're wasting your time and keeping your duaghter in needless danger.

    "Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2008

  • It had been a scheme of his boyhood; he had made collections of materials for it during his first residence in Spain; and he was actually and absorbedly engaged in the composition of the first chapters, when he was sounded by Mr. Cogswell, of the Astor Library, in behalf of Mr. Prescott.

    Washington Irving 2004

  • Yet he worked on, as if absorbedly, and his brown dog sat on her tail near him, and surveyed the untrustworthy world.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • Then Kate would quickly remove the thin, dark, pock-marked arm, the child would withdraw half a yard, the beatitudinous look foiled, but her very black eyes still shining exposed and absorbedly, in a rapt, reptilian sort of ecstasy.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • The peasants never laughed, they watched solemnly and absorbedly like children.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • Then he pulled off his jacket, threw it on the ground, and absorbedly rolled up his shirt sleeve right to the shoulder.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

  • He watched him absorbedly all the time, quite forgetting Daphne.

    The Ladybird 2003

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