Definition:
- (a.) Withdraw; separate.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
- (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
- (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
- (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
- (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.
- (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
- (a.) 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.
- (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
- (a.) An abstract term.
- (a.) 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.
Compare abstract with other words:
abstract vs. virtual
abstract vs. conclusion
abstract vs. ambiguous
abstract vs. concatenate
abstract vs. object
abstract vs. concert
abstract vs. material
abstract vs. title
abstract vs. dislodge
abstract vs. substance
abstract vs. impressionism
abstract vs. subtract
abstract vs. notional
abstract vs. extraction
abstract vs. coal
abstract vs. archaic
abstract vs. unembodied
abstract vs. hypothetical
abstract vs. liberal
abstract vs. obscure
abstract vs. introduction
abstract vs. phrase
abstract vs. metaphor
abstract vs. logic
abstract vs. capabilities
abstract vs. general
abstract vs. gist
abstract vs. intangible
abstract vs. literal
abstract vs. surreal
abstract vs. dinosaur
abstract vs. obstruct
abstract vs. poppycock
abstract vs. objective
abstract vs. excerpt
abstract vs. conspectus
abstract vs. idealism
abstract vs. contract
abstract vs. idiocracy
abstract vs. objectify
abstract vs. externalize
abstract vs. personify
abstract vs. personalize
abstract vs. firm
abstract vs. intuition
abstract vs. fissure
abstract vs. reasoning
abstract vs. docket
abstract vs. hypothetic
abstract vs. personification
abstract vs. proposition
abstract vs. solid
abstract vs. account
abstract vs. conquer
abstract vs. property
abstract vs. intellect
abstract vs. commons
abstract vs. godhead
abstract vs. allegory
abstract vs. information
abstract vs. brief
abstract vs. academic
abstract vs. abstractive
abstract vs. abstracted
abstract vs. purloin
abstract vs. filch
abstract vs. retire
abstract vs. consider
abstract vs. contemplate
abstract vs. epitomize
abstract vs. distillation
abridge vs. abstract
abstract vs. steal
abstract vs. summarize
abstract vs. withdraw
abstract vs. reify
abstract vs. abstractly
abstract vs. applied
abstract vs. conceptual
abstract vs. subclass
abstract vs. theoretical
abstract vs. vague
abstract vs. impersonal
abstract vs. class
abstract vs. practice
abstract vs. reality
abstract vs. ideal
abstract vs. remove
abstract vs. synopsis
abstract vs. separate
abstract vs. epitome
abstract vs. compendium
abstract vs. abstraction
abstract vs. lactose
abstract vs. extract
abstract vs. powder
abstract vs. essence
abstract vs. concentrate
abstract vs. summary
abstract vs. concrete
abstract vs. balderdash
abstract vs. forgetful
abstract vs. meditation
abstract vs. mind
abstract vs. generalize
abstract vs. speech
abstract vs. practical
abstract vs. formal
abstract vs. rock
abstract vs. connotation
abstract vs. number
abstract vs. abstractness
abstract vs. abstractively
abstract vs. abstractionist
abstract vs. abstracter
abstract vs. abstractedness
abridgment vs. abstract
abbreviature vs. abstract
abstract vs. fore
abstract vs. abstruse