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Definition: Self-absorbed |
Self-absorbedAdjective1. Absorbed in your own interests or thoughts etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-absorbed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1879. (references) |
Synonym: Self-absorbedSynonym: self-involved (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm really a very self-absorbed man. (Doctor Dolittle; writing credit: Nat Mauldin) | |
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| "Self-absorbed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-absorbed" is used about 37 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-absorbed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | egocentrik (egocentric, self centered, self centred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | погълнат в себе си. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自私 (Self-interested, selfish, self-serving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφωσιωμένοσ εισ τισ δικέσ του σκέψεισ, αφωσιωμένοσ εισ τασ ιδικάσ του υποθέσεισ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | önmagával elfoglalt (self-adsorbed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | egocentrico (egocentric, egotist, self centered, self-centered person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-absorbedsay egoísta (base, egoistic, egotism, egotistically, self centered, self centred, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking, small). (various references) эгоцентричный (egocentric, self centered, self centred, self-centred). (various references) zaljubljen u sebe. (various references) självupptagen (self centred). (various references) kendini düşünen (self centered, self centred, selfish), dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, far away, far off, faraway, glassy, lost, meditative, moony, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, stargazer, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vacuous, vague, wandering, wistful, woolgathering), dalıp gitmiş (far off, faraway, ruminant), bencil (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotistical, hoggish, piggish, self centered, self centred, selfish, self-seeker, thoughtless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-e-e-f-l-o-r-s-s" | |
-3 letters: beardless, belabored, freeloads, leeboards, slabbered, slobbered. | |
-4 letters: absorbed, albedoes, barbless, bedsores, beefalos, belabors, bobsleds, dabblers, debasers, drabbles, earlobes, fadeless, fearless, federals, fordable, fordless, freeload, leeboard, roadless, safroles, slabbers, slobbers, sorbable. | |
-5 letters: absorbs, adsorbs, aerobes, albedos, aldoses, areoles, barbels, barless, beadles, bedless, bedsore, beefalo, befleas, belabor, berobed, bleared, blessed, blesser, bobsled, bolases, bordels, braless. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 66 2D 61 62 73 6F 72 62 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100001 01100010 01110011 01101111 01110010 01100010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l f - a b s o r b e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0061 0062 0073 006F 0072 0062 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53717872156768858184687170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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