Overview of verb absent

The verb absent has 1 sense

• absent, remove -- (go away or leave; "He absented himself")

Overview of adj absent

The adj absent has 3 senses

• absent -- (not being in a specified place)


• lacking, absent, missing, wanting -- (nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking")


• absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty -- (lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence")