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Definitions for Abstracted

[1] lost in thought; deeply engrossed or preoccupied.
[2] thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
[3] expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed.
[4] theoretical; not applied or practical: abstract science.
[5] difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculations.
[6] 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.
[7] a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome.
[8] something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
[9] an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object.
[10] an abstract work of art.
[11] to draw or take away; remove.
[12] to divert or draw away the attention of.
[13] to steal.
[14] to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances: to abstract the notions of time, space, and matter.
[15] to make an abstract of; summarize.
[16] lost in thought; preoccupied
[17] taken out or separated; extracted
[18] having no reference to material objects or specific examples; not concrete
[19] not applied or practical; theoretical
[20] hard to understand; recondite; abstruse
[21] denoting art characterized by geometric, formalized, or otherwise nonrepresentational qualities
[22] defined in terms of its formal properties an abstract machine
[23] 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
[24] a condensed version of a piece of writing, speech, etc; summary
[25] an abstract term or idea
[26] an abstract painting, sculpture, etc
[27] in the abstract without reference to specific circumstances or practical experience
[28] to think of (a quality or concept) generally without reference to a specific example; regard theoretically
[29] to form (a general idea) by abstraction
[30] (ˈæbstrækt ) (also intr) to summarize or epitomize
[31] to remove or extract
[32] euphemistic to steal

Words related to Abstracted

withdrawn, absent-minded, inattentive, remote

Words nearby Abstracted

abstract noun, abstract number, abstract of title, abstract space, abstract thinking, abstracted, abstracting journal, abstracting service, abstraction, abstractionism, abstractionist

Origin of Abstracted

1400–50; late Middle English: withdrawn from worldly interests 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

Other words from Abstracted

ab·stract·ed·ly , adverb
ab·stract·ed·ness , noun
non·ab·stract·ed , adjective
non·ab·stract·ed·ly , adverb
non·ab·stract·ed·ness , noun
un·ab·stract·ed , adjective
un·ab·stract·ed·ly , adverb
un·ab·stract·ed·ness , noun
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 Abstracted

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

Synonyms for Abstracted

daydreaming, withdrawn, absent-minded, inattentive, lost in thought, out in space, out to lunch, remote