abstract

Meaning

Noun

1. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
2. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
3. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
4. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
5. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
6. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
7. An abstract work of art.
8. A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.

Adj

1. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
2. (archaic) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
3. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
4. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
5. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
6. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
7. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
8. Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
9. 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.
10. (archaic) Absent-minded.
11. (capitalized, often) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
12. Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
13. Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
14. Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

Verb

1. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
2. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
3. (euphemistic, transitive) To separate; to disengage.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To separate; to disengage.
5. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
6. (figuratively, intransitive, literally, reflexive, transitive) To separate; to disengage.
7. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
8. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
9. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To separate; to disengage.
10. (intransitive, transitive) To separate; to disengage.
11. (intransitive, transitive) To separate; to disengage.
12. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.

Synonyms

summary

synopsis

digest

outline

summarize

take away

purloin

compendium

abridgement

epitome

remove

intangible

theoretical

resume

precis

abridge

take

steal

gather

withdraw

brief

gist

sum up

summery

extract

rob

resumé

nick

abstraction

abridgment

deduct

induce

infer

condense

hypothetical

filch

curtail

separate

conclude

academic

strip

conceptual

nonobjective

clear

deprive

seize

pinch

subtract

cabbage

abstracted

Translations

abstrait

abstrakt

astratto

abstracto

abstraire

résumé

resumen

abstract

abstracte

abstrato

Zusammenfassung

abstrair

abstraheren

astrarre

riassunto

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæbˌstɹækt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: abstract

In summary

From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.