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Antonyms for engrossing

Grammar : Adj
Spell : en-groh-sing
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈgroʊ sɪŋ

Definition of engrossing

Origin :
  • c.1400, "to buy up the whole stock of" (in Anglo-French from c.1300), from Old French en gros "in bulk, in a large quantity, at wholesale," as opposed to en detail. See gross.
  • Figurative sense of "absorb the whole attention" is first attested 1709. A parallel engross, meaning "to write (something) in large letters," is from Anglo-French engrosser, from Old French en gros "in large (letters)." Related: Engrossed; engrossing.
  • adj very interesting
Example sentences :
  • The first impression of so strange a scene was engrossing admiration.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Marry, you are right; you make an engrossing topic—you and your debauched father.
  • Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini
  • They prevented that engrossing study, which was often more than her health could bear.
  • Extract from : « Olive » by Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
  • The most fascinating, engrossing and picturesque of the season's novels.
  • Extract from : « The Rose of Old St. Louis » by Mary Dillon
  • It kept me from dwelling too exclusively on one engrossing subject.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
  • Then fame came to her, great sorrow and engrossing duties to me.
  • Extract from : « The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Alphonse Daudet
  • The sight might well turn us even from our engrossing interchange of memories.
  • Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope
  • It was Musard who broached the subject which was engrossing their minds.
  • Extract from : « The Hand in the Dark » by Arthur J. Rees
  • Fully as engrossing as anything from the pen of Hesba Stretton.
  • Extract from : « The Girls of St. Olave's » by Mabel Mackintosh
  • You have no idea how engrossing such a profession may become.
  • Extract from : « The Good Soldier » by Ford Madox Ford

Synonyms for engrossing

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