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UK
/ɐbstɹˈæktɪd/
]
[ US /ˈæbˌstɹæktɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈæbˌstɹæktɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lost in thought; showing preoccupation
the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
an absentminded professor
an absent stare
How To Use abstracted In A Sentence
- Note 62: TNA SP 10/1, no. 38 abstracted in CSP Domestic Edward VI, 36. back From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
- Data used to produce the I9X binding profile was abstracted from reference 21.
- Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters.
- The water has not been ‘predrunk’; it is not abstracted from a river and is as good as the best water you could find anywhere, even bottled.
- And from the business point of view it is just merely wrong to abstractedly speculate that someone wants something. Russia's Sechin Defends Investment Climate
- His movements were slow, his gaze abstracted, as if he were composing a poem in his head.
- His absence had regained for him much of that aureola of saintship which had been nearly abstracted during her reproachful mood on that miserable journey from London. A Pair of Blue Eyes
- The energy of the scattered light is abstracted from the original beam.
- At the entrance to the gallery an upright, abstracted figure, smoothly curved, sat atop a heavy-duty steel truck spring.
- He nodded abstractedly, went upstairs to the big, sunny sewing room, searched the family needlecase for a long stiff darning needle and extracted several rubber bands from the red cardboard box on the library table. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life