abstracted
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)
- Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
- The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. - Milton
- (now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- (now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- An abstracted scholar. - Johnson
Derived terms [edit]
Verb [edit]
abstracted
- simple past tense and past participle of abstract
References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 10:
