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)

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

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

1. past participle of ensimismarse

Further reading

• “ensimismado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28