abstracted

1. 1.

   lost in thought; showing preoccupation

   “an absent stare”

   “an absentminded professor”

   “the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence”

   Synonymsabsentabsentmindedscatty

   Similarinattentive

Questions about abstracted

What does abstracted mean?

abstracted means "lost in thought; showing preoccupation".

How many syllables are in abstracted?

abstracted has 3 syllables: ab-strac-ted. The stress falls on "ab". In IPA it is /ˈæbˌstɹæktɪd/.

What is another word for abstracted?

Close synonyms include absent, absentminded, scatty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abstracted a common word?

abstracted is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.