Definition of "self-absorbed" [self-absorbed]

• Excessively self-involved. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Times already has one self-absorbed, dimwitted Irish spinster on its oped pages."
• "But with attitudes like those from the right, the MSM, the blue dogs, some of the more lazy or self-absorbed democrats, and the big shots in corporate it will defenitly speed things up."
• "We are so easily distracted and so self-absorbed we have no idea what is going on around us."