abstracted

UK /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/ US /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

the evil abstracted stood From his own evil,[…]

2

Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.

I am not sure, that the best way of discussing any subject, except those, that concern the abstracted sciences, is not somewhat in the way of dialogue.

3

Abstract; abstruse; difficult.

The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.

4

Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.

an abstracted scholar

I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?

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