immersed

English

Adjective

immersed (comparative more immersed, superlative most immersed)

1. Under the surface of a liquid; sunk.
2. (figuratively) Deeply involved.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:

     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.

   • 1964 July, “New Books”, in Modern Railways, page 74:

     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; […] .

   • 1996, Jamiroquai, “Virtual Insanity”, in Travelling Without Moving:

     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

3. (botany) Lowered or sunken relative to a reference surface.
   • Sori in the axils of lamina branches, partly immersed; involucre bell- or trumpet-shaped, or obconical, usually 2-lipped; receptacle generally exserted.Crepidomanes, National Herbarium of NSW, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Australia

Derived terms

• nonimmersed
• unimmersed

Translations

under the surface

• Catalan: immers
• French: immergé (fr)
• Galician: inmerso
• Italian: immerso (it)
• Latin: immersus
• Portuguese: imerso (pt)
• Romanian: imersat (ro), scufundat (ro)
• Spanish: sumergido (es), inmerso

deeply involved

• Catalan: immers
• French: immergé (fr)
• Galician: inmerso
• Hindi: मगन (hi) (magan)
• Spanish: sumergido (es), inmerso, enfrascado (es), absorto (es)

sunken

Verb

immersed

1. simple past and past participle of immerse

Anagrams

• simmered