Abstracted
[əb'stræktɪd] or [æb'stræktɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Abstract
(a.) Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
(a.) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.
(a.) Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
(a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Subtile, refined, abstract, abstruse.[2]. Inattentive, preoccupied, lost, dreaming, musing, absent, absent-minded, in a revery, in a brown study.
Edited by Georgina
Examples
- Mr. Weller was in a very abstracted and contemplative mood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Hale sipped his tea in abstracted silence; Margaret had the responses all to herself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That he laid his other hand upon the Doctor's arm, causing him to look up with an abstracted air. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In the same way, not the smallest morsel of property belonging to the proprietors of the house had been abstracted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was not in general a lady's man, though all ladies liked him; something of a book-worm he was, near-sighted, spectacled, now and then abstracted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What are you thinking of to make you look so abstracted? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Birkin went away, his manner cold and abstracted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She became rapt, abstracted in her conviction of exclusive righteousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a terrible face, void, peaked, abstracted almost into meaninglessness by the weight of sensation beneath. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This done, he moved with slow step and abstracted air towards a door in the wall bordering the orchard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Hermione remained with her face lifted up, abstracted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What amount of small change, Missis,' he said, with an abstracted air, after a little meditation, 'might you call a morsel of money? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He replied not: he seemed serious--abstracted; he sighed; he half-opened his lips as if to speak: he closed them again. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Hermione however seemed abstracted and calm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- During the sermon he sat with folded arms and eyes cast down, looking very sad and abstracted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The result is that the heat units carried off by the water flowing around coil _d_ are the same heat units abstracted from the water in tank _a_, which water is thus reduced to congealation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Terms and propositions record, fix, and convey what is abstracted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But abstraction and the use of terms to record what is abstracted put the net value of individual experience at the permanent disposal of mankind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- During this short interchange of sentiments, Mr. Pickwick had, in an abstracted mood, uncorked the bottle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She was pale and abstracted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- John Horner, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's jewel-case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was looking bright and abstracted, puzzled, for the moment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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