absent

Speech parts

1. absent - Noun

2. absent - Adjective

3. absent - Verb

4. absent - Preposition

5. absent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.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 dictionary

Synonyms

wanting abstracted missing lacking out away remove elsewhere gone distracted preoccupied inattentive heedless absent-minded daydreaming
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Antonyms

present found there around available active
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Hypernyms

disappear vanish go away

Phrases with the word

absent-minded absent without leave be absent absent oneself absent oneself from absent menstruation

Derivatives

absented absenting

Anagrams

basnet besant

Examples

Power 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

Close letter words and terms

absence without leave absence without permission absency absent a key absent ally absent antlers