absent
IPA: ˈæbsʌnt
noun
- (with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.
- (obsolete, Scotland) An absentee; a person who is not there.
verb
- (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.
- (transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
- (transitive, rare) Leave.
adjective
- (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
- (not comparable) Not existing; lacking.
- (comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
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Examples of "absent" in Sentences
- Further, the question was an add-on, obviously asked later and in a different context because it is absent from the interview transcript.
- Its particularly ironic considering these are people normally (or heretofore anyway) absent from the political debate, but now they are strongly involved.
- _absent_ from the Gospels: death is not a bridge, not a passing; it is absent because it belongs to a quite different, a merely apparent world, useful only as a symbol.
- For the first time now, with her name absent from the Boston papers for two days in a row, she wondered what would happen if two days became three, then five, then ten.
- Where this is absent, art is absent, _precisely because pure intuition is absent_, and we have at the most, in exchange for it, _that reflex_, philosophical, historical, or scientific.
- Molly herself is absent from the story, away in New York, and has offered her house to our narrator so that she may have some peace and comfort in which to get to grips with a recalcitrant new play.
- Such a Nootka word, for instance, as when, as they say, he had been absent for four days might be expected to embody at least three radical elements corresponding to the concepts of absent, four, and day.
- The Pakistan players at the centre of the spot‑fixing scandal that rocked cricket will remain absent from the sport indefinitely, after two of the trio today had appeals against their provisional suspensions turned down.
- Their _vis-à-vis_ is a lively lady, apparently taking stock of a _bouquet_, but, in reality, joking an absent gentleman, opposite: -- it is Miss Gay, whom Lark (her partner) is making laugh, by observing -- the gentleman is not so _absent_ as he ought to be; causing that lady to forget herself -- making many mistakes and false starts; which, being those of a person who knew better, were very diverting.
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