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[1] thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
[2] expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed.
[3] theoretical; not applied or practical: abstract science.
[4] difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculations.
[5] Fine Arts . of or relating to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc., especially with reference to their relationship to one another. (often initial capital letter ) pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century.
[6] a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome.
[7] something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
[8] an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object.
[9] an abstract work of art.
[10] to draw or take away; remove.
[11] to divert or draw away the attention of.
[12] to steal.
[13] to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances: to abstract the notions of time, space, and matter.
[14] to make an abstract of; summarize.
[15] abstract away from , to omit from consideration.
[16] in the abstract , without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory: beauty in the abstract.
[17] having no reference to material objects or specific examples; not concrete
[18] not applied or practical; theoretical
[19] hard to understand; recondite; abstruse
[20] denoting art characterized by geometric, formalized, or otherwise nonrepresentational qualities
[21] defined in terms of its formal properties an abstract machine
[22] philosophy (of an idea) functioning for some empiricists as the meaning of a general term the word ``man'' does not name all men but the abstract idea of manhood
[23] a condensed version of a piece of writing, speech, etc; summary
[24] an abstract term or idea
[25] an abstract painting, sculpture, etc
[26] in the abstract without reference to specific circumstances or practical experience
[27] to think of (a quality or concept) generally without reference to a specific example; regard theoretically
[28] to form (a general idea) by abstraction
[29] (ˈæbstrækt ) (also intr) to summarize or epitomize
[30] to remove or extract
[31] euphemistic to steal

Words related to Abstract

philosophical, unreal, hypothetical, abstruse, ideal, complex, deep, intellectual, compendium, condensation, outline, brief, summary, synopsis, conspectus, digest, abridgment, dissociate, disconnect, separate

Words nearby Abstract

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Origin of Abstract

1400–50; late Middle English: withdrawn from worldly interests < Latin abstractus drawn off (past participle of abstrahere ). See abs-, tract1

Other words from Abstract

ab·stract·er , noun
ab·stract·ly , adverb
ab·stract·ness , noun
non·ab·stract , adjective, noun
non·ab·stract·ly , adverb
non·ab·stract·ness , noun
o·ver·ab·stract , verb (used with object), adjective
pre·ab·stract , adjective
su·per·ab·stract , adjective
su·per·ab·stract·ly , adverb
su·per·ab·stract·ness , noun

Word origin for Abstract

C14: (in the sense: extracted): from Latin abstractus drawn off, removed from (something specific), from abs- ab- 1 + trahere to draw

Synonyms for Abstract

abstruse, hypothetical, philosophical, unreal, complex, deep, ideal, intellectual, indefinite, nonconcrete, recondite, transcendent, transcendental