Absent

English

Definition of Absent

Adjective Absent (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. Not existing; lacking. Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied. Preposition Absent Without. Verb Absent (third-person singular simple present Absents, present participle Absenting, simple past and past participle Absented) (transitive, with reflexive pronoun) To go away from a place; to leave. (transitive, obsolete) To withhold from being present

Adverbs for Absent

conspicuously; unfortunately; unaccountably; frequently; irritatingly; apparently; voluntarily; inexcusably; noticeably; purposely; inexplainably; mysteriously; carelessly; usually; provokingly.

Synonyms for Absent

missing, away, nonexistent, void, truant, blank, withdrawn.

Antonyms for Absent

present, attending, existing, remaining, here.

Related terms

absence; absentee; absenteeism

Thesaurus

absconded; absentminded; absorbed; abstracted; away; bemused; castle-building; daydreaming; daydreamy; deficient; deleted; departed; disappeared; distrait; dreaming; dreamy; drowsing; ecstatic; elsewhere; engrossed; faraway; forgetful; gone; half-awake; heedless; in a reverie; in the clouds; keep away from; lacking; lost; lost in thought; meditative; missing; mooning; moonraking; museful; musing; napping; no longer present; nodding; nonattendant; nonexistent; not found; not present; oblivious; off; omitted; out; out of sight; pensive; pipe-dreaming; preoccupied; rapt; somewhere else; stargazing; subtracted; taken away; taken up; transported; unconscious; vanished; wanting; withdraw from; woolgathering; wrapped in thought

Absent etymology

Etymology 1 From Middle French absent < Old French ausent < Latin absent-, the stem of absens, present participle of abesse (“to be away from”), formed from ab + esse (“to be”). Etymology 2 From Latin absente (“being absent”) Etymology 3 From Old French absenter, from Late Latin absentare (“keep away, be away”).

Pronunciation

• (RP, US) enPR: ăbsĕnt', IPA: /æbˈsɛnt/, SAMPA: /{b"sEnt/
• (RP, US) enPR: ăb'sənt, IPA: /ˈæb.sənt/, SAMPA: /{b.s@nt/

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Translations

being away from a place

American Sign Language: 1@NearFinger-Open8@Center-PalmDown Contact 1@NearFinger-Open8@Center-PalmDown Armenian: բացակա (hy) (bac'aka) Bulgarian: отсъстващ (bg) Chinese: 缺席 (zh) (quēxí) Czech: nepřítomný (cs) m. Danish: fraværende (da) Dutch: afwezig (nl), weg (nl) German: abwesend (de) Greek: απών (el) m. Template:Trapón

Italian: assente (it) Japanese: 欠席する (ja) (kesseki suru) Latin: absens (la) Maltese: nieqes (mt) Norwegian: fraværende (no) Portuguese: ausente (pt) Romanian: absent (ro) m. and n., absentă (ro) f., neprezent (ro) m. and n. Russian: отсутствующий (ru) Slovene: odsoten (sl) Spanish: ausente (es), falta (es)

not existing

Armenian: բացակա (hy) (bac'aka) Bulgarian: несъществуващ (bg) Dutch: afwezig (nl) Greek: ανύπαρκτος (el) m. Italian: assente (it)

Norwegian: fraværende (no) Portuguese: ausente (pt) Romanian: absent (ro) m. and n., inexistent (ro), inexistentă (ro) f., neexistent (ro) m. and n. Spanish: ausente (es)

inattentive

Armenian: անջատված (hy) (anǰatvaç) Bulgarian: отсъстващ (bg) Chinese: 缺席 (zh) (quēxí) Dutch: afwezig (nl), verstrooid (nl) German: (geistig) abwesend (de) Greek: αφηρημένος (el) m.

Italian: assente (it) Latin: amens (la) Norwegian: fraværende (no) Portuguese: ausente (pt) Romanian: neatent (ro) m., distrat (ro) m., (spiritual) absent (ro) Spanish: ausente (es), distraído (es) French: absent (fr) Ido: absenta (io) Indonesian: absen (id), tidak hadir Interlingua: absente (ia) Novial: absenti (nov)

without

Dutch: behalve (nl), zonder (nl), uitgezonderd (nl)

to leave

Ancient Greek: ἅπειμι (hapeimi) Dutch: zich verwijderen (nl), vertrekken (nl) French: s'absenter (fr) Greek: απουσιάζω (el)

Malay: pergi (ms) Portuguese: ausentar (pt) Spanish: ausentarse (es)

to be not present

Ancient Greek: ἅπειμι (hapeimi) Bulgarian: отсъствам (bg) Dutch: afwezig (nl) zijn (nl) Greek: [[λείπω}#Greek|λείπω}]] [[:el:λείπω}|(el)]], απουσιάζω (el)

Latin: absum (la) Portuguese: ausentar (pt) Spanish: ausentarse (es)

Anagrams

• abnets

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin absens.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /apsɑ̃/

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Adjective

Absent m. (f. Absente, m. plural Absents, f. plural Absentes)

1. absent
2. absent-minded

Noun

Absent m. (plural Absents)

1. absentee; missing person

Anagrams

• basent

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Romanian

Adjective

Absent

1. absent

Related terms

• absenta
• absentare
• absentat
• absenteism
• absenteist
• absență