ensimismado
Spanish
    
FWOTD – 1 July 2022
    Etymology
    
Past participle of ensimismarse.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ensimisˈmado/ [ẽn.si.mizˈma.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: en‧si‧mis‧ma‧do
Adjective
    
ensimismado (feminine ensimismada, masculine plural ensimismados, feminine plural ensimismadas)
- self-centered, self-absorbed
- 2016 June 22, Iñigo López Palacios, “Un grupo ensimismado [A self-absorbed band]”, in El País, Madrid, →ISSN:- Si se desprende una sensación del álbum es que Radiohead es un grupo completamente ensimismado en su propia existencia. Un círculo cerrado en el que hasta los colaboradores (Nigel Godrich y Stanley Donwood) se repiten.- If you get a sense of anything from the album, it's that Radiohead is a band completely self-absorbed in its own existence. A closed circle in which even the collaborators (Nigel Godrich and Stanley Donwood) repeat themselves.
 
 
 
- preoccupied, lost in thought, engrossed
- 1881, Benito Pérez Galdós, La desheredada:- Ya no se reía Isidora de las cartas y recetas. Desde el día anterior estaba muy ensimismada, y hablaba muy poco.- Isidora didn't laugh at the letters and recipes anymore. Since the previous day she had been quite lost in thought, and she didn't speak much.
 
 
- 1909, Madame P. Caro, Amar es vencer:- Luciana me escuchaba muy grave y como ensimismada en sus pensamientos, dudando si creer en mis protestas, o acaso interrogándose a sí misma, no lo sé.- Luciana listened to me, very serious and preoccupied with her thoughts, doubting whether to believe my protests, or perhaps questioning herself; I don't know.
 
 
 
Participle
    
ensimismado (feminine ensimismada, masculine plural ensimismados, feminine plural ensimismadas)
- past participle of ensimismarse
Further reading
    
- “ensimismado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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