Word Meaning

Meaning of abstract

- Withdraw; separate.
- Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
- Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
- Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
- Abstracted; absent in mind.
- To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
- To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
- To epitomize; to abridge.
- To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
- To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
- A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
- An abstract term.
- A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

Crossword clue for abstract

- Intangible
- Modern art style
- Non-representational
- Not applied or practical
- Notional
- Obscure type of art produced by putting a six-pack on a stretch of land
- Summary
- Synopsis that exists only in the mind?