absent

  • (a) not being in a specified place
  • (s) nonexistent
    • the thumb is absent
    • her appetite was lacking
    wanting, lacking, missing,
  • (s) lost in thought; showing preoccupation
    • an absent stare
    • an absentminded professor
    • the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
    absentminded, abstracted, scatty,

Verbs

  • (v) go away or leave
    • He absented himself
    remove,

Synonyms

remove wanting lacking missing absentminded abstracted scatty

Antonyms

present

Words of close approximity

abseil
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