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absent
  • v  go away or leave
    He absented himself
  • a  not being in a specified place
  • s  nonexistent
    the thumb is absent
  • s  lost in thought; showing preoccupation
    an absent stare
    an absentminded professor
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absentminded
  • s  lost in thought; showing preoccupation
    an absentminded professor
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absolute
  • n  something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative
    no mortal being can influence the absolute
  • a  perfect or complete or pure
    absolute loyalty
    absolute silence
    absolute truth
    absolute alcohol
  • s  complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
    absolute freedom
    an absolute dimwit
  • s  not limited by law
    an absolute monarch
  • s  expressing finality with no implication of possible change
    an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority
  • s  not capable of being violated or infringed
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absolutist
  • n  one who advocates absolutism
  • a  pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism
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absolved
  • v  grant remission of a sin to
    The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Mary's
  • v  let off the hook
  • s  freed from any question of guilt
    is absolved from all blame
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absorbable
  • a  capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface
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absorbed
  • v  become imbued
  • v  take up mentally
    he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe
  • v  take up, as of debts or payments
  • v  take in, also metaphorically
  • v  cause to become one with
    The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax
  • v  suck or take up or in
  • v  devote (oneself) fully to
  • v  assimilate or take in
    The immigrants were quickly absorbed into society
  • v  consume all of one's attention or time
  • s  giving or marked by complete attention to
  • s  retained without reflection
    the absorbed light intensity
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absorbent
  • n  a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
  • a  having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
    as absorbent as a sponge
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absorbing
  • v  become imbued
  • v  take up mentally
  • v  take up, as of debts or payments
  • v  take in, also metaphorically
  • v  cause to become one with
  • v  suck or take up or in
  • v  devote (oneself) fully to
  • v  assimilate or take in
  • v  consume all of one's attention or time
  • s  capable of arousing and holding the attention
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adrenocortical
  • a  of or derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands
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absorptive
  • a  having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
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abstemious
  • a  sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
    the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy
  • s  marked by temperance in indulgence
    abstemious with the use of adverbs
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abstentious
  • s  self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink
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abstinent
  • n  a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
  • s  self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink
    not totally abstinent but abstemious
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abstract
  • n  a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
    he loved her only in the abstract--not in person
  • n  a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
  • v  consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
  • v  make off with belongings of others
  • v  consider apart from a particular case or instance
    Let's abstract away from this particular example
  • v  give an abstract (of)
  • a  existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
    abstract words like `truth' and `justice'
  • s  not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
    a large abstract painting
  • s  dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
    abstract reasoning
    abstract science
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abstracted
  • v  consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
  • v  make off with belongings of others
  • v  consider apart from a particular case or instance
  • v  give an abstract (of)
  • s  lost in thought; showing preoccupation
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abstractionist
  • n  a painter of abstract pictures
  • s  not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
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