abstr.

Adjective

abstract (comparative more abstract or abstracter, superlative most abstract or abstractest)

1. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
2. (archaic) 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.17th century, John Norris (philosopher), The Oxford Dictionary
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.

   Synonyms:

   conceptual, ideal, imaginary, incorporeal, intangible, nonempirical, theoretical

   Antonyms:

   actual, concrete, corporeal, empirical

   1. Insufficiently factual.
   2. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
      • 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),[…]1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489
   3. As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

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Adjective

abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)

1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
   • the evil abstracted stood
     From his own evil,[…]1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC...
2. (archaic) 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.1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new...
3. (archaic) 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.1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages...
4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
   • an abstracted scholar