engrossing

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/, /ɛŋˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/, /ɛŋˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/

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engrossing (comparative more engrossing, superlative most engrossing)

1. Utterly consuming one's time and attention.

   Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating

   an engrossing documentary

   • 2020 October 12, Dwight Garner, “Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are”, in New York Times‎:

     The good news about “The Silence” is that it’s engrossing and that, at 83, DeLillo’s syntax is as prickly as ever.

engrossing

1. present participle and gerund of engross

engrossing (plural engrossings)

1. The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.

• grossening