'absent' definitions:
Definition of 'absent'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not being in a specified place [ant: present]
adjective
Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking" [syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting]
adjective
Lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty]
verb
Go away or leave; "He absented himself" [syn: absent, remove]
Synonyms of 'absent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absconded,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- abstracted,
- away,
- bemused,
- castle-building,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- deficient,
- deleted,
- departed,
- disappeared,
- distrait,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engrossed,
- faraway,
- forgetful,
- gone,
- half-awake,
- heedless,
- in a reverie,
- in the clouds,
- keep away from,
- lacking,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- meditative,
- missing,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- museful,
- musing,
- napping,
- no longer present,
- nodding,
- nonattendant,
- nonexistent,
- not found,
- not present,
- oblivious,
- off,
- omitted,
- out,
- out of sight,
- pensive,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- somewhere else,
- stargazing,
- subtracted,
- taken away,
- taken up,
- transported,
- unconscious,
- vanished,
- wanting,
- withdraw from,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought