abstract

abstract is a 8-letter English word with 25 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Withdraw; separate. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Withdraw; separate.
2. adjective. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
3. adjective. Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
4. adjective. Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
5. adjective. Abstracted; absent in mind.
6. adjective. To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
7. adjective. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
8. adjective. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
9. adjective. To epitomize; to abridge.
10. adjective. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
11. adjective. To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
12. transitive verb. To perform the process of abstraction.
13. adjective. That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
14. adjective. A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
15. adjective. An abstract term.
16. adjective. A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
17. noun. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

    "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

    Synonyms: abstraction

18. noun. a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

    Synonyms: outline, precis, synopsis

19. verb. consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
20. verb. consider apart from a particular case or instance

    "Let's abstract away from this particular example"

21. verb. give an abstract (of)
22. verb. make off with belongings of others

    Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe

23. adjective. existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment

    "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'"

24. adjective. dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention

    "abstract reasoning"

    "abstract science"

25. adjective. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature

    "a large abstract painting"

    Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective

Synonyms

abstraction, outline, precis, synopsis, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective

Common word forms

abstracts, abstracted, abstracter, abstractly, abstractest, abstracting, abstractable, abstractness

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