Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Past participle of ensimismarse.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ensimisˈmado/ [ẽn.si.mizˈma.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: en‧si‧mis‧ma‧do

Adjective edit

ensimismado (feminine ensimismada, masculine plural ensimismados, feminine plural ensimismadas)

  1. self-centered, self-absorbed
    • 2016 June 22, Iñigo López Palacios, “Un grupo ensimismado [A self-absorbed band]”, in El País[1], 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.
  2. preoccupied, lost in thought, engrossed
    • 1881, Benito Pérez Galdós, La desheredada[2]:
      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[3]:
      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 edit

ensimismado (feminine ensimismada, masculine plural ensimismados, feminine plural ensimismadas)

  1. past participle of ensimismarse

Further reading edit