ABSENT
Dictionary entry overview: What does absent mean?
• ABSENT (adjective)
The adjective ABSENT has 2 senses:
1. not in a specified place physically or mentally
2. lost in thought; showing preoccupation
Familiarity information: ABSENT used as an adjective is rare.
• ABSENT (verb)
The verb ABSENT has 1 sense:
1. go away or leave
Familiarity information: ABSENT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ABSENT (adjective)
Meaning:
Not in a specified place physically or mentally
Similar:
away; departed; gone (not present; having left)
devoid (completely lacking)
introuvable (impossible to find)
lacking; missing; nonexistent; wanting (not existing)
awol; truant (absent without permission)
Attribute:
presence (the state of being present; current existence)
Antonym:
present (spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place)
Meaning:
Lost in thought; showing preoccupation
Synonyms:
absentminded; absent; abstracted; scatty
Context examples:
an absent stare / an absentminded professor / the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
Similar:
inattentive (showing a lack of attention or care)
• ABSENT (verb)
Meaning:
Go away or leave
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
absent; remove
Context example:
He absented himself
Hypernyms (to "absent" is one way to...):
disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
