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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?
When you complete the trail and arrive in Aqaba, you realize the noise of cars has been absent from your life for a month.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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.
I'll buy him some toy to have that day, but I know it's nothing he asked Santa Claus for, Karla Coronado said. For girls there is not much to choose from either. The popular Nerf Rebelle guns are absent from Venezuelan shelves, and the ubiquitous Ever After High dolls or the Equestria Girls are nowhere to be found --- not even in the North Pole. I explained to my daughter that Santa Claus does not have that much money and that probably Nerf Rebelle will only bring her one gift.
The presence of firearms at the polling place, clerk's office( s), or absent voter counting board may cause disruption, fear, or intimidation for voters, election workers, and others present.
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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