Synonyms:
absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting
Meaning: capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story"
Usage examples
The pangs of hunger and thirst then returned, absorbing all other cares and considerations.
When high power is used attention is confined within very circumscribed limits, but its action is exceedingly intense and absorbing.
The very word pupil has almost come to mean one who is engaged not in having fruitful experiences but in absorbing knowledge directly.
Philosophers less pretentious and more worldly than these have sometimes felt, in their way, the absorbing force of self-consciousness.
This ambiguity is most conspicuous, perhaps, in the most absorbing of the personages which a man constructs in this imaginative fashion--his idea of himself.
The longer he gazed the more absorbing became the spell--the more impossible did it appear that he could ever withdraw his glance from the fascination of that tapestry.
Every time there was a knock at the door, at every sound of footsteps in the street, she hid her agitation by raising questions of absorbing interest to the countryside.
As to her, she loved almost unconsciously; she scarcely inquired what was the growing passion that was absorbing every thought and feeling, or what were to be its consequences.
Everything on the surface is heated; their own instinct dictates the most reasonable method of sheltering themselves from the heat, at the same time absorbing the cool exhalations from the ground.
Hadji is a wonderful Arab horse that a reckless hunter rides to death in the pursuit of a wild boar, and the moral of the poem--for there is a moral--seems to be that an absorbing passion is a very dangerous thing and blunts the human sympathies.