abstracted

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /æb'stæktıd/

Verb

Plain form abstract

Third-person singular abstracts

Past tense abstracted

Past participle abstracted

Present participle abstracting

1. The past tense and past participle of abstract.

Adjective

Positive abstracted

Comparative more abstracted

Superlative most abstracted

1. If something is abstracted, it is separated or disconnected.
2. If someone is abstracted, they forget things or do not pay attention to what they are doing, often because they are thinking about something else.
   • Synonyms: absent, absent-minded, absentminded, scatty, forgetful, distrait, moony, scatterbrained, spacey and ditzy

   In his later life he became even more abstracted.

Related words

• abstract
• abstractedly
• abstracter
• abstraction
• abstractly
• abstractness
• abstractor