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self-involved

[ self-in-volvd, self- ]

adjective

  1. another term for self-absorbed:

    That video game had him so self-involved he never heard us pounding on the door.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-involved1

First recorded in 1780–90

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Example Sentences

Alcoholic, narcissistic, self-involved… and did we mention hilarious?

We take on the gamut of recent confessionals, from the sickeningly self-involved to the extremely endearing.

The bustle of the newsroom is a mere backdrop for self-involved characters to give talky speeches and taunt each other.

As a little girl, Jane was enamored of her father, but he was too self-involved to notice.

The value of the egregiously self-involved twenty- or thirtysomething woman-trying-to-get-her-life-together voice is its urgency.

She was not one of those self-involved women always studying their own emotions; she was simply true to the light within her.

There was silence for a moment, and one after another met my roving glance with a thoughtful, self-involved and retrospective eye.

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