Abstract is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSTRACT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to draw away
• To perform the process of abstraction.
• consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
• make off with belongings of others
• consider apart from a particular case or instance
• give an abstract (of)
• summarize
NOUN:
• a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
• a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
• summary
ADJECTIVE:
• difficult to understand
• dealing with ideas rather than events
• not based on a particular instance; theoretical
• (of a noun) denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
• existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence
• relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colours, and textures
• used euphemistically to indicate that someone has stolen something
• withdraw
• consider something theoretically or separately from (something else)
• extract or remove (something)
• make a written summary of (an article or book)
• a summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech
• an abstract work of art
• existing as an idea
• Withdraw; separate.
• 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.
• 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.
• Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, \"reptile\" is an abstract or general name.
• Abstracted; absent in mind.
• To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
• To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
• To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
• To epitomize; to abridge.
• To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
• 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.
• 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 state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
• An abstract term.
• 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.
• existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
• not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
• dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to take away

Words related to ABSTRACT

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Words that contain ABSTRACT

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How to use ABSTRACT in a sentence

• They have reached a purely abstract point, but they cannot get through it without some more material help.
• Abstract Ideas are the Essences of Genera and Species.
• Mixed modes stand for abstract Ideas, as other general Names.
• Or at least, that was the subtle, abstract, cyberspatial seed of the problem.
• It is largely a question as to whether a poet like Geibel has to have a source for everything that is not absolutely abstract.
• He differs from Sir James Mackintosh in this, that he deals less in abstract principles, and more in individual details.
• Those who imagine that there was a poverty of resources in these languages, or that their concrete form hemmed in the mind from the study of the abstract, speak without knowledge.
• Because every government, even if despotic, must be guided by policy rather than abstract right or reason.
• He chose to speak in the concrete rather than in the abstract, and, therefore, instead of defining God, He shows us how He acts.
• There was nothing abstract about her delicate loveliness, yet her charm was not wholly physical.
• Or again, we may frame a single abstract notion of language of which all existent languages may be supposed to be the perversion.
• These would have been mere abstract propositions, with no authority vested in the National Government for their enforcement.
• Material things, things that move, living things, human actions and accounts of human action, will win the attention better than anything that is more abstract.
• Not only must abstract mathematics have made some progress, but concrete mathematics also.
• The poetry which makes the precept loved, is more than the precept itself, taken as an abstract truth.
• The poet maintained, indeed, in the abstract, that life itself was pitch dark.
• The commissioners had made their report, and an abstract of the evidence which they had taken had been printed in the course of the preceding session.
• In cases of this kind, they might say, we are face to face with human nature, not as an abstract thing, but in its concrete personal existence.
• Abstract thinking is thinking withdrawn from the concrete and particular facts.
• This is in a manner strange, that the abstract and metaphysical thing should precede the concrete and sensuous.
• I cannot think of love or good, or power or glory in the abstract.
• He usually has power also in dealing with the concrete, but his chief interest is in the abstract.
• Comte has done, his abstract statements to our reminiscences of historical facts.
• The thought is always concrete, and he is never satisfied with the vague ideas and abstract conceptions which so easily moved his contemporaries.
• In the hands of the later and lesser poets, the romantic method finally loses almost all sense of personality, and becomes a picture and analysis of abstract emotion.
• She hated misery, and not only misery in the abstract, but miserable weak creatures.
• In the earlier Greek statues the head remains lifeless, abstract, whilst the limbs are full of expression.

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