Overview of verb abstract

The verb abstract has 4 senses

• abstract -- (consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically)


• pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift -- (make off with belongings of others)


• abstract -- (consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example")


• abstract -- (give an abstract (of))

Overview of adj abstracted

The adj abstracted has 1 sense

• 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")