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单词 abstracted
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Definition of abstracted in English:

abstracted

adjective əbˈstraktɪdæbˈstræktəd
  • Lacking concentration on what is happening around one.

    she seemed abstracted and unaware of her surroundings
    an abstracted smile
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Where More is the most abstracted member of the group, Patensen is the most engaged, though his vacant stare has an abstracted quality of its own.
    • Some of those who spoke made sense, she said, but there were others who seemed just as batty and abstracted as the most eccentric tweedy types of yesteryear, despite the Marxian lingo and the earrings.
    • Though pleasantly matey, he has the fatigued, abstracted air of someone who has been summarising his CV in dressing rooms for three decades.
    • In her abstracted mood Huston's Gretta attends only slightly to Gabriel's anecdote, and there is nothing equivalent to the erotic rebuff that Joyce presented as transitional to the last epiphany.
    • In the picture, no one is really smiling; Bob Geldof is showing some teeth, but his eyes are closed and he's sort of abstracted; there's a black guy I can't put a name to in the back who looks quite pleased, but that's it for smiles.
    • Everyone has the same drugged, internal, abstracted look: and why?
    • He began grooming the fur on his wrist in an abstracted sort of way.
    • He gives the impression of an eccentric school master with, yes, a slightly abstracted air; a patrician whose sentences end with a heavy emphasis.
    • Solara seemed rather abstracted and unconcerned, but then, she always did.
    • But we have seen that modern liberal philosophy has begun to emphasize that individuals should be viewed as members of society with mutual obligations rather than as abstracted and isolated individuals.
    • Yet when I discuss this with non-lawyer friends, many seem worried in an abstracted fashion, as though surveillance were an inconvenience on the order of a nosy and fussbudgety old neighbor.
    • Similarly, Alexander McCulloch is posed in a landscape as if to suggest the naturalness of his abstracted, dreamy state.
    Synonyms
    absent-minded, distracted, preoccupied, absorbed, engrossed, far away, somewhere else, not there, not with us, in a world of one's own, with one's head in the clouds, daydreaming, dreamy, inattentive, thoughtful, pensive, lost in thought, deep in thought, immersed in thought, wool-gathering, in a brown study, musing, brooding, absent, distrait, heedless, oblivious
    informal miles away

Derivatives

  • abstractedly

  • adverb abˈstraktɪdliəbˈstræktədli
    • ‘OK Timmy, go show your sister,’ Mrs. Davison said abstractedly, putting a hand on Timmy's shoulder and pushing him gently into the living room.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As Nelson abstractedly went over some of the myriad of reports that covered his desk, the intercom on his desk interrupted him.
      • Suffused with a post-Romantic melancholy, it seems to wander abstractedly through a softly glowing mist.
      • He is looking up abstractedly into the middle distance with a slightly suppressed smile.
      • While everyone else engages in some form of inward or outward dialogue, they stare abstractedly into space, oblivious to their surroundings.
 
 

Definition of abstracted in US English:

abstracted

adjectiveæbˈstræktədabˈstraktəd
  • Showing a lack of concentration on what is happening around one.

    she seemed abstracted and unaware of her surroundings
    an abstracted smile
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He began grooming the fur on his wrist in an abstracted sort of way.
    • Everyone has the same drugged, internal, abstracted look: and why?
    • Though pleasantly matey, he has the fatigued, abstracted air of someone who has been summarising his CV in dressing rooms for three decades.
    • But we have seen that modern liberal philosophy has begun to emphasize that individuals should be viewed as members of society with mutual obligations rather than as abstracted and isolated individuals.
    • Where More is the most abstracted member of the group, Patensen is the most engaged, though his vacant stare has an abstracted quality of its own.
    • Yet when I discuss this with non-lawyer friends, many seem worried in an abstracted fashion, as though surveillance were an inconvenience on the order of a nosy and fussbudgety old neighbor.
    • Similarly, Alexander McCulloch is posed in a landscape as if to suggest the naturalness of his abstracted, dreamy state.
    • Some of those who spoke made sense, she said, but there were others who seemed just as batty and abstracted as the most eccentric tweedy types of yesteryear, despite the Marxian lingo and the earrings.
    • In the picture, no one is really smiling; Bob Geldof is showing some teeth, but his eyes are closed and he's sort of abstracted; there's a black guy I can't put a name to in the back who looks quite pleased, but that's it for smiles.
    • Solara seemed rather abstracted and unconcerned, but then, she always did.
    • In her abstracted mood Huston's Gretta attends only slightly to Gabriel's anecdote, and there is nothing equivalent to the erotic rebuff that Joyce presented as transitional to the last epiphany.
    • He gives the impression of an eccentric school master with, yes, a slightly abstracted air; a patrician whose sentences end with a heavy emphasis.
    Synonyms
    absent-minded, distracted, preoccupied, absorbed, engrossed, far away, somewhere else, not there, not with us, in a world of one's own, with one's head in the clouds, daydreaming, dreamy, inattentive, thoughtful, pensive, lost in thought, deep in thought, immersed in thought, wool-gathering, in a brown study, musing, brooding, absent, distrait, heedless, oblivious
 
 
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