Antonyms:
| add, | complete, | fill up, | restore, | unite. |
| combine, | conjoin, | increase, | strengthen, |
Prepositions:
The purse may be abstracted from the pocket; the substance from the accidents; a book into a compend.
ABSTRACTED.
Synonyms:
| absent, | heedless, | listless, | preoccupied, |
| absent-minded, | inattentive, | negligent, | thoughtless. |
| absorbed, | indifferent, | oblivious, | |
As regards mental action, absorbed, abstracted, and preoccupied refer to the cause, absent or absent-minded to the effect. The man absorbed in one thing will appear absent in others. A preoccupied person may seem listless and thoughtless, but the really listless and thoughtless have not mental energy to be preoccupied. The absent-minded man is oblivious of ordinary matters, because his thoughts are elsewhere. One who is preoccupied is intensely busy in thought; one may be absent-minded either through intense concentration or simply through inattention, with fitful and aimless wandering of thought. Compare [ABSTRACT].