Synonyms for absent
ˈæb sənt; æbˈsɛnt, ˈæb səntab·sent

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1. 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, thoughtless

   Antonyms:
   alert, attentive, on hand, prompt, ready, thoughtful, wide-awake

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1. absentadjective

   Synonyms:
   not present, gone away, elsewhere, inattentive, thoughtless, listless, preoccupied

   Antonyms:
   present, in this place, here, attentive

2. absent

   Synonyms:
   keep away, depart, withdraw

   Antonyms:
   be present, stay, remain

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1. absentadjective

   not being in a specified place

   Synonyms:
   absentminded, wanting, scatty, lacking, abstracted, missing

   Antonyms:
   omnipresent, present, existing, existent, here(p), ever-present, attentive, attendant, naturally occurring, ubiquitous

2. lacking, absent, missing, wantingadjective

   nonexistent

   "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

   Synonyms:
   abstracted, scatty, lacking(p), wanting, lacking, wanting(p), absentminded, deficient, missing

   Antonyms:
   omnipresent, here(p), attentive, existing, existent, attendant, ever-present, naturally occurring, ubiquitous, present

3. absent, 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, rattlebrained

   Antonyms:
   present, ubiquitous, here(p), ever-present, existent, omnipresent, naturally occurring, attendant, existing, attentive

4. absent, 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 off

   Antonyms:
   existent, naturally occurring, existing, attentive, here(p), ever-present, omnipresent, attendant, present, ubiquitous

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1. absentadjective

   Synonyms:
   away, gone, not present

2. absentadjective

   Synonyms:
   abstracted, preoccupied, inattentive, dreaming, musing, lost, napping, absent-minded, in a brown study

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1. List of paraphrases for "absent":

   absentee, non-existent, absence, missing, no-shows, regrets, nonexistent, lack

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1. Karl Kleinpaste:

   Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.

2. Hisham Genena:

   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?

3. Elizabeth Bowen:

   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.

4. Mike Pompeo:

   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.

5. Cicero:

   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.