1. absent - Noun
2. absent - Adjective
3. absent - Verb
4. absent - Preposition
5. absent - Adjective Satellite
Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
To withhold from being present.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPower and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Hannah Arendt
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. Henry James
I find that moral courage is the most valuable and most usually absent characteristic. George S. Patton
Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent. Portuguese Proverb
The absent are always in the wrong. English Proverb
The absent get further off every day. Japanese Proverb