Dictionary Entry
absent
absent is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
- 2adjective
Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
- 3adjective
Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
- 4transitive verb
To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
- 5transitive verb
To withhold from being present.
- 6verb
go away or leave
"He absented himself"
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- 7adjective
lost in thought; showing preoccupation
"an absent stare"
"an absentminded professor"
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- 8adjective
nonexistent
"the thumb is absent"
"her appetite was lacking"
- 9adjective
not being in a specified place
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