absent

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; (sometimes) missing.

Owing to his own illness and then his family's, Ramzi has often been absent from class this month. We will help him catch up with his studies.

When they were able to return to the clinic some months later, certain pieces of equipment were absent.

Not existing.

The body part was rudimentary or absent in 1% of specimens.

Empathy seemed to be absent from the messages.

Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.

Tom was there, but he seemed absent and withdrawn. Normally he is quite present [= engaged] during a meeting.

What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.

Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.

The Applause he met with exceeds all belief of the Absent.

That very sense of longing, of yearning for the absent, which 'nostalgia' conveys to us now.

An absentee; a person who is not there.

In the absence of; without; except.

Absent taxes modern governments cannot function.

If the accused refuse upon demand to pay money or deliver property (absent any excuse or excusing circumstance) which came into his hands as a bailee, such refusal might well constitute some evidence of conversion, with the requisite fraudulent intent required by the statute.