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[syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Abstracted \Ab*stract"ed\, a.
1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
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The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.
--Milton.
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2. Separated from matter; abstract; ideal. [Obs.]
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3. Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. "An
abstracted scholar." --Johnson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Abstract \Ab*stract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abstracted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Abstracting.] [See Abstract, a.]
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1. To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
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He was incapable of forming any opinion or
resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. --Sir
W. Scott.
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2. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his
was wholly abstracted by other objects.
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The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
--Blackw. Mag.
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3. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to
consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a
quality or attribute. --Whately.
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4. To epitomize; to abridge. --Franklin.
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5. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to
abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
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Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins
from the harness. --W. Black.
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6. (Chem.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts
of a substance, by distillation or other chemical
processes. In this sense extract is now more generally
used.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
abstracted
adj 1: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent
stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing
quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
[syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "abstracted":
abbreviated, abridged, absent, absentminded, absorbed, bemused,
bobbed, buried in thought, capsule, capsulized, castle-building,
clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short,
daydreaming, daydreamy, digested, distrait, docked, dreaming,
dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elided, elliptic, elsewhere,
engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, faraway,
half-awake, heedless, immersed in thought, in a reverie,
in the clouds, inattentive, intent, introspective, lost,
lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, mowed, mown,
museful, musing, napping, nipped, nodding, oblivious, occupied,
pensive, pipe-dreaming, pollard, polled, preoccupied, pruned, rapt,
reaped, shaved, sheared, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed,
somewhere else, stargazing, taken up, transported, trimmed,
unconscious, unmindful, woolgathering, wrapped in thought