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Adjective abstracted has 2 senses
- abstracted, removed - taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead
Antonym: joint (indirect, via separate)
- absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty - lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
Antonym: attentive (indirect, via inattentive)
Verb abstract has 4 senses
- abstract - consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
--1 is one way to see, consider, reckon, view, regard
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift - make off with belongings of others
--2 is one way to steal
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- abstract - consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example"
--3 is one way to consider, take, deal, look at
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- abstract - give an abstract (of)
--4 is one way to sum up, summarize, summarise, resume
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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