absent as a verb: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
- 2
- 3
absent
verb
1 absent
Go away or leave:
— He absented himself.
synonym: remove.
Dutch: vertrekken, verwijderen
adjective
1 absent
Not being in a specified place.
Roget 452:
vacant,
unintellectual,
unideal†,
unoccupied,
unthinking,
inconsiderate,
thoughtless,
mindless,
no-brain,
vacuous;
absent
etc.
(inattentive)
458;
diverted;
irrational
etc.
499;
narrow-minded
etc.
481.
unthought of,
undreamt 'of,
unconsidered;
off one's mind;
incogitable†,
not to be thought of.
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Polish: nieobecny
2 absent
Nonexistent:
— The thumb is absent.
synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting.
Roget 187:
absent,
not present,
away,
nonresident,
gone,
from home;
missing;
lost;
wanting;
omitted;
nowhere to be found;
inexistence
etc.
2†.
empty,
void;
vacant,
vacuous;
untenanted,
unoccupied,
uninhabited;
tenantless;
barren,
sterile;
desert,
deserted;
devoid;
uninhabitable.
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Roget 2:
inexistent†,
nonexistent
etc.
1;
negative,
blank;
missing,
omitted;
absent
etc.
187;
insubstantial,
shadowy,
spectral,
visionary.
unreal,
potential,
virtual;
baseless,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubstantial
etc.
4;
vain.
unborn,
uncreated†,
unbegotten,
unconceived,
unproduced,
unmade.
perished,
annihilated,
etc.
v.;
extinct,
exhausted,
gone,
lost,
vanished,
departed,
gone with the wind;
defunct
etc.
(dead)
360.
fabulous,
ideal
etc.
(imaginary)
515,
supposititious
etc.
514.
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3 absent
Lost in thought; showing preoccupation:
— An absent stare.
— An absentminded professor.
synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty.
Roget 458:
inattentive;
unobservant,
unmindful,
heedless,
unthinking,
unheeding,
undiscerning†;
inadvertent;
mindless,
regardless,
respectless†,
listless
etc.
(indifferent)
866;
blind,
deaf;
bird-witted;
hand over head;
cursory,
percursory†;
giddy-brained,
scatter-brained,
hare-brained;
unreflective,
unreflecting†,
ecervele [Fr.];
offhand;
dizzy,
muzzy†,
brainsick†;
giddy,
giddy as a goose;
wild,
harum-scarum,
rantipole†,
highflying;
heedless,
careless
etc.
(neglectful)
460.
inconsiderate,
thoughtless.
absent,
abstracted,
distrait;
absentminded,
lost;
lost in thought,
wrapped in thought;
rapt,
in the clouds,
bemused;
dreaming on other things,
musing on other things;
preoccupied,
engrossed
etc.
(attentive)
457;
daydreaming,
in a reverie
etc.
n.;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†;
napping;
dreamy;
caught napping.
disconcerted,
distracted,
put out
etc.
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