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abstract
/ˈæbˌstɹækt/
noun 5adj 5verb 5
Collocations
5(adj.)
VERBS
be
ADV
highly, very
entirely, purely
The mathematician's theory was entirely abstract and had no practical application in real life.
increasingly | fairly, rather, somewhat
Definitions
noun
1
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
An analysis and abstract of every treatise he had read.
2
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
3
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
4
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
5
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
Thus the concrete like has its abstract likeness; the concretes, father and son, have the abstracts, paternity and filiation.
adj
1
Derived; extracted.
2
Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
3
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.
4
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
5
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]
verb
1
To separate; to disengage.
He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
2
To separate; to disengage.
The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages.
3
To separate; to disengage.
Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
The inlaid characters in diamond, and other precious stones, have been all abstracted away by the pelf-loving Jaut and Mahratta—leaving the walls defaced with the hollow marks of the chisel.
4
To separate; to disengage.
Poison from roses who could e'er abstract?
5
To separate; to disengage.
The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
adjective — not representing or imitating external reality or the object
- abstractionist
- nonfigurative
- nonobjective
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
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An analysis and abstract of every treatise he had read.
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Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
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Thus the concrete like has its abstract likeness; the concretes, father and son, have the abstracts, paternity and filiation.
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The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
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Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.
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During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and soci
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