Word Study
immersed
CIDE DICTIONARY
immersed, p. p. & a.
- Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid. [1913 Webster]
- Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled. [1913 Webster]
- Growing wholly under water. Gray. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
immersed
absorbed, absorbed in, awash, bathed, buried, buried in, caught up in, contemplating, contemplative, deep, deluged, devoted, devoted to, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, engulfed, enmeshed in, entangled in, far-gone, flooded, immersed in, implicated in, intent, intent on, inundated, involved, involved in, lost in, macerated, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, obsessed, occupied, oozing, overflowed, permeated, preoccupied, rapt, saturated, seeping, single-minded, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, studious, studying, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submerged in, submersed, sunken, swamped, swept up, taken up with, tied up in, totally absorbed, undersea, underwater, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wrapped, wrapped in, wrapped up, wrapped up in, wringing wetFor further exploring for "immersed" in Webster Dictionary Online