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

Synonyms

summary

synopsis

digest

summarize

outline

take away

abridgement

compendium

purloin

epitome

intangible

remove

theoretical

resume

precis

take

gather

steal

abridge

condense

resumé

deduct

rob

extract

gist

summery

sum up

brief

induce

infer

abstraction

withdraw

nick

abridgment

clear

subtract

pinch

conceptual

filch

seize

hypothetical

separate

academic

nonobjective

curtail

conclude

deprive

strip

syllabus

excerpt

absent

epitomize

detect

immaterial

impalpable

abs

cut off

nonfigurative

count down

truncate

recapitulate

uncover

cabbage

discover

docket

lift

capsule

misappropriate

abstractionist

write off

delete

nobble

embezzle

quotation

abstract of title

cut

overview

distract

abstruse

peel

selection

shell

🐚

find

🔍

shorten

detach

bare

skin

abbreviate

slash

snarf

sneak

speculative

pilfer

starve

abstracted

hook

🪝

summarise

abbreviation

expose

ideal

swipe

subsumption

sum

summing up

take from

take out

task force

telescope

🔭

theoretic

thieve

transcendental

try out

unfix

untouchable

usurp

waive

weatherstrip

withdrawn

wrest

wring

write-off

abridged form

batten down

burglarise

deprive of

digest outline

make an abstract of

walk off with

subduct

comprisal

make a summary

abscond with

extract from

not all there

make a resume of

capsulise

sum-up

synopsize

deprive … of

abstractionistic

worldless

abbreviature

ablate

abolish

absent minded

absent-minded

abstractive

amputate

amuse

aniconic

armchair

banish

batten

break away

capitulation

capsulize

compact

concentrate

conceptional

conceptualize

conciseness

condensation

decrease

deduce

defrost

despoil

detachment

detail

detract

diminish

discrete

disengage

disjoint

dismantle

dismount

dispense with

dispossess

disunite

divert

divest

do away with

draw

draw off

ease

educe

elicit

eliminate

entertain

epitomise

essence

extort

extraction

fanciful

faraway

formal

get rid of

grab

imaginary

imaginative

inclusion

invisible

keep apart

lessen

literary

moral

muzzy

noetic

nonrepresentational

notional

pack

passage

philosophical

pitch

pluck

prescind

prospectus

pry

puddle

pull

put aside

put away

recap

recapitulation

refine

refining

removal

rend

retrench

rid

rifle

sample

scatter

scrap

seal

🦭

segregate

shoplift

shortness

shrink

sifting

spiritual

substance

Translations

abstrait

abstrakt

abstracto

abstraire

résumé

resumen

abstract

Zusammenfassung

abstraheren

abstrahieren

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.