adj
Meaning 1
Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
abstracted
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
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US: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
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US: /æbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
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CMU ARPABET: AE1 B S T R AE2 K T IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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adj
Meaning 4
Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an abstracted scholar
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verb
Meaning 5
simple past and past participle of abstract
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
lost in thought; showing preoccupation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an absent stare
- an absentminded professor
- the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Proto-Indo-European *dhregh-der.? Latin trahō Latin abstrahō Latin abstractusbor. Middle English abstract English abstract English -ed English abstracted From abstract + -ed.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: absent — separated or disconnected
- Dutch: afwezig — separated or disconnected
- Dutch: in gedachten verdiept — separated or disconnected
- Portuguese: abstraído — separated or disconnected
- Spanish: abstraído — separated or disconnected
- Swedish: frånvarande — separated or disconnected
- Swedish: tankfull — separated or disconnected
- Swedish: disträ — separated or disconnected
- Swedish: avskärmad — separated or disconnected
- Swedish: tillbakadragen — separated or disconnected
- Dutch: verstrooid — inattentive to surrounding objects
- French: distrait — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Irish: aislingeach — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Irish: brionglóideach — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Irish: neamhairdiúil — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Irish: seachránach — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Portuguese: abstraído — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Portuguese: absorto — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Portuguese: distraído — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Spanish: abstraído — inattentive to surrounding objects
- Ottoman Turkish: طالغین (dalgın) — inattentive to surrounding objects
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