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abstracted

/əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/US/əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/

abstracted adjective: separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. Also the simple past and past participle of abstract.

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 Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.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
    • I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 40

Also used as

abstracted is also the simple past and past participle of abstract.

Examples of abstracted in a sentence

  • He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
  • He abstracted out the square root function.
  • The abstracted metadata are represented in the multilevels of primitive metadata, composite metadata, and personalized metadata.

All 14 example sentences with abstracted

Forms of abstracted

comparativemore abstracted
superlativemost abstracted

Origin of abstracted

From abstract + -ed.

Words formed from abstracted

Phrases with abstracted

Questions about abstracted

What does abstracted mean?
Abstracted means separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
What part of speech is abstracted?
Abstracted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce abstracted?
Abstracted is pronounced /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/ (UK).

Words near abstracted in the dictionary

  1. abstract universals
  2. abstract verb
  3. abstract verbs
  4. abstracta
  5. abstractable
  6. abstracted
  7. abstracted empiricism
  8. abstractedly
  9. abstractedness
  10. abstractedst
  11. abstracter

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