Synonyms of the word absent


ABSENTABSENTMINDED - ABSTRACTED - AWAY - AWOL - DEPARTED - DEVOID - DISAPPEAR - GONE - INATTENTIVE - LACKING - MISSING - NONEXISTENT - REMOVE - SCATTY - TRUANT - VANISH - WANTING

absent

  • adj. (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
  • adj. (not comparable) Not existing; lacking.
  • adj. (sometimes comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
  • n. (obsolete) Absentee; a person who is away on occasion.
  • prep. In the absence of; without.
  • v. (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
  • v. (transitive, rare) Leave.

absentminded

  • adj. Alternative form of absent-minded.

abstracted

  • adj. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
  • adj. (now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
  • adj. (now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
  • adj. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of abstract.

away

  • adv. From a place, hence.
  • adv. Aside; off; in another direction.
  • adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  • adv. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
  • adv. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
  • adv. Without restraint.
  • adv. Being so engaged for the entire time.
  • adv. At a distance in time or space.
  • interj. (Northern England) come on!; go on!
  • adj. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
  • adj. (following the noun modified) At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
  • adj. (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
  • adj. (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
  • adj. Misspelling of aweigh.

awol

  • adj. Alternative form of AWOL.
  • n. Alternative form of AWOL.

departed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of depart.
  • adj. (euphemistic) dead.
  • n. (euphemistic) A dead person or persons.

devoid

  • adj. empty; having none of; completely without.
  • v. (obsolete) To empty out; to remove.

disappear

  • v. (intransitive) To vanish.
  • v. (transitive) To make vanish.
  • v. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.

gone

  • v. past participle of go.
  • adj. Away, having left.
  • adj. (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
  • adj. No longer existing, having passed.
  • adj. Used up.
  • adj. Dead.
  • adj. (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings.
  • adj. (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
  • adj. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
  • prep. (Britain, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

inattentive

  • adj. Of or pertaining to lack of attention; not paying attention; careless.

lacking

  • v. present participle of lack.
  • n. The absence of something; a lack.
  • adj. Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).

missing

  • v. present participle of miss.
  • adj. Not able to be located; gone; absent; lost.
  • adj. (of an internal combustion engine) Running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular…
  • n. (statistics) A value that is missing.

nonexistent

  • adj. Not existent; not real.

remove

  • v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
  • v. (transitive) To murder.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
  • v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
  • v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
  • v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
  • n. The act of removing something.
  • n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
  • n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
  • n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
  • n. Distance in time or space; interval.
  • n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
  • n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

scatty

  • adj. (slang, Britain) Scatterbrained; flighty.

truant

  • adj. Absent without permission, especially from school.
  • adj. Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
  • n. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
  • v. (intransitive) To play truant.
  • v. (transitive) To idle away; to waste.
  • v. To idle away time.

vanish

  • v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  • v. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
  • n. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from…
  • n. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

wanting

  • adj. Absent or lacking.
  • prep. without.
  • v. present participle of want.
  • n. The state of wanting something; desire.

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