 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abstracted
adjective
1: taken out of or separated from; "possibility
is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"-
A.N.Whitehead [syn: {removed}]
2: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare";
"an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality
of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: {absent},
{absentminded}, {scatty}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abstract \Ab*stract"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Abstracted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Abstracting}.] [See {Abstract}, adjective]
1. To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
He was incapable of forming any opinion or
resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. --Sir
W. Scott.
2. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his
was wholly abstracted by other objects.
The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
--Blackw. Mag.
3. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to
consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a
quality or attribute. --Whately.
4. To epitomize; to abridge. --Franklin.
5. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to
abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins
from the harness. --W. Black.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abstracted \Ab*stract"ed\, adjective
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 Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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