abstracted
adjUK /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/ · US /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
Etymology From abstract + -ed.
1
Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
- the evil abstracted stood From his own evil,[…]1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
2
Archaic Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
- I am not sure, that the best way of discussing any subject, except those, that concern the abstracted sciences, is not somewhat in the way of dialogue.1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume IX, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, page 1:
3
Archaic Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
- The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170:
4
Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
- an abstracted scholar
- I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 40:
- Derived terms
- abstractedly, abstractedness, nonabstracted, unabstracted