abstracted

English

Etymology

abstract +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

Adjective

abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)

  1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
    • (Can we date this quote?), Milton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.
  2. (now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
  3. (now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
  4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 57:
      I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?
    ...an abstracted scholar...

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

abstracted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of abstract

References
  1. “abstracted” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, page 10.
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