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Abstracted
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What's The Definition Of Abstracted?
[adj] lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
[adj] taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead Synonyms | Synonyms for Abstracted: absent | absentminded | inattentive | removed | scatty | separate Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Abstracted In Webster's Dictionary \Ab*stract"ed\, a.
1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.
--Milton.
2. Separated from matter; abstract; ideal. [Obs.]
3. Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [Obs.] --Johnson.
4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. ``An
abstracted scholar.'' --Johnson.
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