ab·stract·ed
(ăb-străḱtĭd, ăb́străḱ-)
adjective
- Removed or separated from something else; apart.
- Lost or deep in thought; preoccupied.
derivatives
- ab·stract́ed·ly
- adverb
- ab·stract́ed·ness
- noun
ab·stract
(ăb-străkt́, ăb́străkt́)
[Middle English, from Latin abstractus past participle of abstrahere, to draw away, abs-, ab-, away; see ab–1, + trahere, to draw.]
adjective
- Considered apart from concrete existence: an abstract concept.
- Not applied or practical; theoretical. See synonyms at theoretical
- Difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract philosophical problems.
- Thought of or stated without reference to a specific instance: abstract words like and
- Impersonal, as in attitude or views.
- Having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation: abstract painting and sculpture.
noun
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- Something abstract.
transitive verb: -stract·ed, -stract·ing, -stracts.
- To take away; remove.
- To remove without permission; filch.
- To consider (a quality, for example) without reference to a particular example or object.
- To summarize; epitomize.
- To create artistic abstractions of (something else, such as a concrete object or another style): “The Bauhaus Functionalists were . . . busy unornamenting and abstracting modern architecture, painting and design” (John Barth)
derivatives
- ab·stract́er
- noun
- ab·stract́ly
- adverb
- ab·stract́ness
- noun
