absent
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adj (English)
1. (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; (sometimes) missing.Examples: "Owing to his own illness and then his family's, Ramzi has often been absent from class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."; "Expecting absent friends."Antonyms: present#Adjectivenot-comparable
2. (not comparable) Not existing.Examples: "The body part was rudimentary or absent in 1% of specimens."; "Empathy seemed to be absent from the messages."; "Signs of forced entry were absent."Antonyms: present#Adjective, existing#Adjective, extant#Adjectivenot-comparable
3. (comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.Examples: "Tom was there, but he seemed absent and withdrawn.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."; "For days Ailie had an absent eye and a sad face, and it so fell out that in all that time young Heriotside, who had scarce missed a day, was laid up with a broken arm and never came near her."Antonyms: present#Adjectivecomparable
noun (English)
1. (with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.Examples: "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."with-definite-article
2. (obsolete, Scotland) An absentee; a person who is not there.Scotlandobsolete
verb (English)
1. (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.Examples: "Most of the men are retired, jobless, or have otherwise temporarily absented themselves from the workplace."; "If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined."; "This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."reflexive
2. (transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.Examples: "Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more;"archaictransitive
3. (intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.Examples: "The iron rule of the plantation, always passionately and violently enforced in that neighborhood, makes flogging the penalty of failing to be in the field before sunrise in the morning, unless special permission be given to the absenting slave."intransitiveobsolete
4. (transitive, rare) Leave.raretransitive
5. (transitive, rare) To omit.Examples: "When we realize that the digitalisation of the image involves - by reducing and even absenting - the role of 'the physical', the 'sensuous' (by reducing and eventually absenting the indexical aspects of the image) […]"; "Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals."raretransitive
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