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abstracted

Sayuhb-STRAK-tid/əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/

5 meanings of abstracted

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  1. 1
    adjective
    Lost in thought and not noticing what is happening around you.

    Like daydreaming so deeply that you don't hear someone calling your name.

    She had an abstracted look, as if her mind were miles away.

    He seemed abstracted during the meeting and missed half the questions.

    Similarpreoccupied, distracted, absent, faraway, distant

    Oppositeattentive, alert, focused

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  2. 2
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of abstract. Use this form for the action done at an earlier time.

    The chemist abstracted the active compound from the dried leaves.

    Funds had been abstracted from the account without anyone noticing.

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  3. 3
    adjective
    Kept apart or separate from other things around it.

    Like a single puzzle piece set apart from the rest of the box.

    The little island felt abstracted from everything, cut off by miles of sea.

    His quiet study stayed abstracted from the busy household around it.

    Similarisolated, removed, separated, detached, withdrawn

    Oppositeconnected, integrated, attached

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  1. 4
    adjectivearchaic
    Existing only as an idea, not as a real, physical thing.

    Like the idea of 'roundness' itself, separate from any round ball you can hold.

    To the old philosophers, true beauty was something abstracted, free of any physical form.

    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, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”Here, abstracted means existing only as ideas, not as real physical things.
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  2. 5
    adjectivearchaic
    Hard to understand because the ideas are deep and complicated.

    Like a math problem so tricky that even grown-ups need help with it.

    The lecture grew so abstracted that few in the room could follow it.

    His writing was abstracted and dense, hard for ordinary readers to grasp.

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abstracted is a form of abstract

abstract, verb: To make a short summary of a longer piece of writing. Full entry

Forms
abstractabstracts he/she/itabstracting -ing formabstracted past tense, past participle
Spelling
abstract → abstracted: add -ed

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Origin

This word comes from "abstract" plus the ending "-ed".