Definition of absent

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Absent (a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air..

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Absent :: Absent (a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
Missing :: Missing (v. i.) Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Absent :: Absent (a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air..
Muzzy :: Muzzy (a.) Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid.
Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..
Return :: Return (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary..
Absent :: Absent (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
Musard :: Musard (v. i.) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
Absentee :: Absentee (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee..
Absenter :: Absenter (n.) One who absents one's self.
Greeting :: Greeting (n.) Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.
Absent-minded :: Absent-minded (a.) Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies..
Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
Dream :: Dream (n.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend..
Absenting :: Absenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absen.
Absentaneous :: Absentaneous (a.) Pertaining to absence.
Privation :: Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..
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