Definitions for abstracted

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abstracted ab·stract·ed

Spelling: [ab-strak-tid]

IPA: /æbˈstræk tɪd/

Abstracted is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 646 anagrams from letters in abstracted (aabcderstt).

Definitions for abstracted

noun

1. a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome.
2. something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
3. an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object.
4. an abstract work of art.

Idioms

1. abstract away from, to omit from consideration.
2. in the abstract, without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory:

adjective

1. lost in thought; deeply engrossed or preoccupied.
2. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances:
3. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed.
4. theoretical; not applied or practical:
5. difficult to understand; abstruse:
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.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw or take away; remove.
2. to divert or draw away the attention of.
3. to steal.
4. to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances:
5. to make an abstract of; summarize.

Origin of abstracted

First recorded in 1605-15; abstract + -ed²

Examples for abstracted

"I've noticed she has seemed depressed, or abstracted," he replied.

Exercise them now, and conjecture me who could have abstracted the body from the church.

He is silent and abstracted, like one just returned from the cave of Trophonius.

Ossipon sat rigid, with the abstracted gaze of mental travail.

I understood, abstracted four of the five kittens, and disappeared.

Mary looked up at him with that abstracted gaze with which we weigh and judge.

Had it been abstracted while the letter was still in his office?

It must be restored to the experience from which it has been abstracted.

In a society that has exoticized and abstracted the military, MacLeish re-humanizes it.

The captain's dispatches are examined and the only document of real value is abstracted.