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ab⋅stract⋅ed

  [ab-strak-tid]
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–adjective
lost in thought; deeply engrossed or preoccupied.
Origin:
1605–15; abstract + -ed 2

Related forms:
ab⋅stract⋅ed⋅ly, adverb
ab⋅stract⋅ed⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
See absent-minded.

ab⋅stract

  [adj. ab-strakt, ab-strakt; n. ab-strakt; v. ab-strakt for 10–13, ab-strakt for 14]
–adjective
1. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
2. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed.
3. theoretical; not applied or practical: abstract science.
4. difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculations.
5. Fine Arts.
a. of or pertaining to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc., esp. with reference to their relationship to one another.
b. (often initial capital letter) pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century.
–noun
6. a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome.
7. something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
8. an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object.
9. an abstract work of art.
–verb (used with object)
10. to draw or take away; remove.
11. to divert or draw away the attention of.
12. to steal.
13. to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances: to abstract the notions of time, space, and matter.
14. to make an abstract of; summarize.
—Idioms
15. abstract away from, to omit from consideration.
16. in the abstract, without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory: beauty in the abstract.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME: withdrawn from worldly interests < L abstractus drawn off (ptp. of abstrahere). See abs-, tract 1

Related forms:
ab⋅stract⋅er, noun
ab⋅stract⋅ly, adverb
ab⋅stract⋅ness, noun
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ab·stract   (āb-strākt', āb'strākt')   
adj.  
  1. Considered apart from concrete existence: an abstract concept.
  2. Not applied or practical; theoretical. See Synonyms at theoretical.
  3. Difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract philosophical problems.
  4. Thought of or stated without reference to a specific instance: abstract words like truth and justice.
  5. Impersonal, as in attitude or views.
  6. Having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation: abstract painting and sculpture.
n.   (āb'strākt')
  1. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
  2. Something abstract.
tr.v.   (āb-strākt') ab·stract·ed, ab·stract·ing, ab·stracts
  1. To take away; remove.
  2. To remove without permission; filch.
  3. To consider (a quality, for example) without reference to a particular example or object.
  4. (āb'strākt') To summarize; epitomize.
  5. To create artistic abstractions of (something else, such as a concrete object or another style): "The Bauhaus Functionalists were . . . busy unornamenting and abstracting modern architecture, painting and design" (John Barth).

[Middle English, from Latin abstractus, past participle of abstrahere, to draw away : abs-, ab-, away; see ab-1 + trahere, to draw.]
ab·stract'er n., ab·stract'ly adv., ab·stract'ness n.
ab·stract·ed   (āb-strāk'tĭd, āb'strāk'-)   
adj.  
  1. Removed or separated from something else; apart.
  2. Lost or deep in thought; preoccupied.
ab·stract'ed·ly adv., ab·stract'ed·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Abstracted

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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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