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Synonyms for absent
ˈæb sənt; æbˈsɛnt, ˈæb səntab·sent
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
absent
As regards mental action, absorbed, abstracted, and preoccupied refer to the cause, absent or absent-minded to the effect. The man absorbed in one thing will appear absent in others. A preoccupied person may seem listless and thoughtless, but the really listless and thoughtless have not mental energy to be preoccupied. The absent-minded man is oblivious of ordinary matters, because his thoughts are elsewhere. One who is preoccupied is intensely busy in thought; one may be absent-minded either through intense concentration or simply through inattention, with fitful and aimless wandering of thought. Compare ABSTRACT.
Synonyms:
absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, listless, negligent, oblivious, preoccupied, thoughtlessAntonyms:
alert, attentive, on hand, prompt, ready, thoughtful, wide-awake
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
absentadjective
Synonyms:
not present, gone away, elsewhere, inattentive, thoughtless, listless, preoccupiedAntonyms:
present, in this place, here, attentiveabsent
Synonyms:
keep away, depart, withdrawAntonyms:
be present, stay, remain
Princeton's WordNet
absentadjective
not being in a specified place
Synonyms:
absentminded, wanting, scatty, lacking, abstracted, missingAntonyms:
omnipresent, present, existing, existent, here(p), ever-present, attentive, attendant, naturally occurring, ubiquitouslacking, absent, missing, wantingadjective
nonexistent
"the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
Synonyms:
abstracted, scatty, lacking(p), wanting, lacking, wanting(p), absentminded, deficient, missingAntonyms:
omnipresent, here(p), attentive, existing, existent, attendant, ever-present, naturally occurring, ubiquitous, presentabsent, absentminded, abstracted, scattyverb
lost in thought; showing preoccupation
"an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
Synonyms:
abstracted, wanting, rattlepated, lacking, absentminded, missing, scatty, scatterbrained, rattlebrainedAntonyms:
present, ubiquitous, here(p), ever-present, existent, omnipresent, naturally occurring, attendant, existing, attentiveabsent, removeverb
go away or leave
"He absented himself"
Synonyms:
move out, take, slay, transfer, dispatch, get rid of, hit, withdraw, take away, remove, take out, bump off, murder, off, polish offAntonyms:
existent, naturally occurring, existing, attentive, here(p), ever-present, omnipresent, attendant, present, ubiquitous
Dictionary of English Synonymes
absentadjective
Synonyms:
away, gone, not presentabsentadjective
Synonyms:
abstracted, preoccupied, inattentive, dreaming, musing, lost, napping, absent-minded, in a brown study
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "absent":
absentee, non-existent, absence, missing, no-shows, regrets, nonexistent, lack
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#225 | off | |
#246 | take | |
#1337 | transfer | |
#1551 | hit | |
#1651 | remove | |
#2246 | missing | |
#2498 | lack | |
#4553 | murder | |
#4598 | elsewhere | |
#4642 | absence | |
#6793 | absent | |
#7663 | wanting | |
#8911 | dispatch | |
#10105 | depart | |
#10524 | withdraw | |
#10574 | lacking | |
#13521 | absorbed | |
#17142 | deficient | |
#23207 | absentee | |
#24087 | indifferent | |
#24372 | regrets | |
#25698 | negligent | |
#32348 | slay | |
#33501 | oblivious | |
#36172 | nonexistent | |
#40280 | preoccupied | |
#41382 | abstracted | |
#63892 | thoughtless | |
#69724 | inattentive | |
#81711 | listless | |
#98935 | heedless | |
#256033 | scatterbrained | |
#275665 | absentminded |
How to use absent in a sentence?
Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.
I am keen on the success of any president because his success is our success... but the attitude I'm seeing of using a security grip or reproducing the police state will not be productive, when political parties are absent, NGOs are absent, local media is being crushed, international media too... is that a sign of a healthy environment in which a country can flourish?
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
There's been no decision, so the team is working and I am sure we will have lots of conversations to deliver what the president has made clear, absent a substantial fix, absent overcoming the flaws of the deal, he is unlikely to stay in that deal.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Translations for absent
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- адсутны, адсутнічацьBelarusian
- отсъстващ, отсъствам, несъществуващBulgarian
- absentCatalan, Valencian
- nepřítomnýCzech
- fraværendeDanish
- abwesend, fernbleiben, fehlenGerman
- απών, αφηρημένος, απουσιάζω, ανύπαρκτοςGreek
- ausentarse, distraído, ausenteSpanish
- غایبPersian
- poissaFinnish
- absent, absenterFrench
- ausenteGalician
- अनुपस्थितHindi
- անջատված, բացակաArmenian
- absenteskarIdo
- assenteItalian
- 無い, いない, 持つ, 欠席Japanese
- absens, amens, absumLatin
- ngaro, takē, kaituMāori
- absen, pergiMalay
- nieqesMaltese
- verstrooid, verwijderen, zijn, uitgezonderd, weg, zonder, behalve, vertrekken, afwezigDutch
- fraværendeNorwegian
- de, ausentar, na, ausente, inexistente, ausênciaPortuguese
- ch'usayQuechua
- absent, neexistent, inexistent, inexistentă, neprezent, absentă, distrat, neatentRomanian
- отсутствовать, отсутствующийRussian
- odsotenSlovene
- frånvarandeSwedish
- இல்லாமல்Tamil
- відсутнійUkrainian
- lơ đãng, vắng mặtVietnamese
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