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self-absorbed

Speech parts

1. self-absorbed - Adjective

2. self-absorbed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

absorbed in your own interests or thoughts etc

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self absorbed

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Examples

He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape. Gabriel García Márquez

You're never alone when you're totally self-absorbed. Ben Croshaw

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. Chris Barber

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. Chris Evert

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you. Chris Evert

I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago. Diablo Cody

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