Absent means not there. If you absent yourself from class, you're marked as absent. If you have an absent parent, it means they don't live with you or take part in your care.
Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
Verb
go away or leave; "He absented himself"
Adjective S.
lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
Adjective
not in a specified place physically or mentally
a.
Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not
present.
a.
Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or
absent.
a.
Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied;
as, an absent air.
v. t.
To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as
to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
v. t.
To withhold from being present.
Absent
What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.
Absent
If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined.2.
Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
Usage Examples
I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.
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Other Usage ExamplesMen can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
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