immersed
/ˌɪmˈɝst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Under the surface of a liquid; sunk.
verb
simple past and past participle of immerse
Example Sentences
- "At a suitable distance apart, exercising his unique gift of being profoundly impressed by a subject that he had no interest in whatever, Parkinson was deeply immersed in a chart illustrating a century of wheat averages of the British Isles."
- "ON THE NARROW GAUGE. By P. B. Whitehouse. Nelson 30s. […] In an introductory note Mr. Whitehouse disarms any criticism from narrow-gauge aficionados as immersed in the subject as himself by pointing out that his book has no pretensions to the status of a new narrow-gauge textbook; […]."
- "And nothing's gonna change the way we live / 'Cause we can always take, but never give / And now that things are changing for the worse, see / Whoa, it's a crazy world we're livin' in / And I just can't see that half of us immersed in sin / Is all we have to give these"
- "Sori in the axils of lamina branches, partly immersed; involucre bell- or trumpet-shaped, or obconical, usually 2-lipped; receptacle generally exserted."
Inflected Forms
more immersed (comparative)
most immersed (superlative)