abstract
/ˈæbˌstɹækt/ adjective B1- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize. · The politician gave a somewhat abstract answer when asked about their plans to cut spending.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
Comparative abstracter · Superlative abstractest
From the library
Marilla was not to be drawn from the safe concrete into dubious paths of the abstract.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker.
When you fly at thirty thousand feet, the world below is reduced to an abstract, disconnected patchwork of colors.
Without the natural rhythm of daylight to regulate our biological clocks, the passage of time becomes strangely fluid and abstract.
Other matches
Learn abstract in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.