English Dictionary

abstract

/ˈæbˌstɹækt/

adj

(obsolete) Derived; extracted. / (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. / Insufficiently factual. / Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

The painting had an abstract design.

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(obsolete) Derived; extracted.

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(now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.

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Insufficiently factual.

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Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]

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(grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

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Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

The politician gave a somewhat abstract answer when asked about their plans to cut spending.

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Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.

A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing...

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Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.

A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. […] A practice, however, has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression abstract name to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.

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(archaic) Absent-minded.

Abſtract as in a tranſe methought I ſaw,

Abſtract as in a tranſe methought I ſaw, abstract, as in a trance

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(art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.

But his design is wonderful. He’s getting more and more abstract every day. He’d given up the third dimension when I was there and was just thinking of giving up the second. Soon, he says, there’ll be just the blank canvas. That’s the logical conclusion. Complete abstraction.

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(music) Absolute.

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(dance) Lacking a story.

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(object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.