Absent
['æbs(ə)nt] or [ˈæbsənt]
Definition
(verb.) go away or leave; 'He absented himself'.
(adj.) lost in thought; showing preoccupation; 'an absent stare'; 'an absentminded professor'; 'the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence' .
(adj.) not being in a specified place .
Edited by Cathryn--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
(a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
(a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
(v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) To withhold from being present.
Typist: Ursula
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Away, gone, not present.[2]. Abstracted, preoccupied, inattentive, dreaming, musing, lost, napping, absent-minded, in a brown study.
Checker: Rhonda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Keep_away, depart, withdraw
ANT:Be_present, stay, remain,[See ABSCOND]
SYN:Not_present, gone_away, elsewhere, inattentive, thoughtless, listless,preoccupied
ANT:Present, in_this_place, here, attentive
Typist: Waldo
Definition
adj. being away: not present: inattentive—v.t. (abs-ent′) to keep one's self away.—ns. Abs′ence the state of being away or not present: want: inattention; Absentee′ one who is absent on any occasion: one who makes a habit of living away from his estate or his office; Absentee′ism the practice of absenting one's self from duty or station esp. of a landowner living away from his estate.—adv. Ab′sently.
Checker: Rosalind
Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.
Edited by Darrell
Examples
- Whether friends were present or absent, she had always a kind smile for him and was attentive to his pleasure and comfort. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When we are absent from it, we say it still exists, but that we do not feel, we do not see it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This man declares that he was not absent from his post for an instant, and he is positive that neither boy nor man could have gone that way unseen. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her aunt Shaw loved her well in her own quiet way; but she forgets to love the absent. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The indefinable feeling with which Lady Dedlock had impressed me may have had some influence in keeping me from the house even when she was absent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Susan dropped the spoon, shook her fist at the vanished figure, and then proceeded with her work in a musing, absent way. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The chairs and table, and the bottle so rarely absent from the table, all stand as usual. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For one little moment Madame Beck absented herself from the room; ten minutes after, an agent of the police stood in the midst of us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l'ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents causent l'inconstance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typed by Billie