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abstract
[ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt]
adjective
thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.
an abstract idea.
expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed.
not applied or practical; theoretical.
abstract science.
difficult to understand; abstruse.
abstract speculations.
Fine Arts.Ìę
of or relating to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc., especially with reference to their relationship to one another.
Often Abstract pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century.
noun
a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome.
something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object.
an abstract work of art.
abstract
adjective
having no reference to material objects or specific examples; not concrete
not applied or practical; theoretical
hard to understand; recondite; abstruse
denoting art characterized by geometric, formalized, or otherwise nonrepresentational qualities
defined in terms of its formal properties
an abstract machine
philosophy (of an idea) functioning for some empiricists as the meaning of a general term
the word ``man'' does not name all men but the abstract idea of manhood
noun
a condensed version of a piece of writing, speech, etc; summary
an abstract term or idea
an abstract painting, sculpture, etc
without reference to specific circumstances or practical experience
verb
to think of (a quality or concept) generally without reference to a specific example; regard theoretically
to form (a general idea) by abstraction
(also intr) to summarize or epitomize
to remove or extract
euphemisticÌęto steal
Other 51łÔčÏ Forms
- abstracter noun
- abstractly adverb
- abstractness noun
- nonabstract adjective
- nonabstractly adverb
- nonabstractness noun
- overabstract verb (used with object)
- preabstract adjective
- superabstract adjective
- superabstractly adverb
- superabstractness noun
51łÔčÏ History and Origins
51łÔčÏ History and Origins
Origin of abstract1
Idioms and Phrases
abstract away from, to omit from consideration.
in the abstract, without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory.
beauty in the abstract.
Example Sentences
Elsewhere in the exhibition, one could see abstract paintings in the "Insanity Room."
If texting Dorn descriptions of scents seemed too abstract for me, a podcast seems like an even more difficult medium to describe scent.
The exhibition features a new body of work Sutherland created from 2024 to 2025, including large-scale abstract paintings, collage that weaves together drawings, photographs, stickers and found images, and sculpture.
It goes on to say that Palestinians "are not the abstract victims of an abstract war".
The "strategic position" of the dot has led scientists to see it as evidence of Neanderthals' "symbolic behaviour", suggesting they had the ability to think about things in an abstract way.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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