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absent

adjective

(stress on the first syllable)

1 she was absent from work | an absent parent:

away, off, out, not present, non-attending, truant;

not working, not at work, off duty, on leave, on annual leave;

gone, missing, lacking, unavailable, non-existent;

Latin in absentia;

informal AWOL;

British on holiday;

British, informal bunking off, skiving;

Australian, New Zealand, informal wagging.

▷antonyms present.

2 his eyes had an absent, dreaming look:

distracted, preoccupied, inattentive, vague, absorbed, abstracted, unheeding, oblivious, distrait, absent-minded;

daydreaming, dreamy, dreaming, far away, somewhere else, musing, wool-gathering, with one's head in the clouds, in a world of one's own, lost in thought, in a brown study;

blank, empty, vacant, vacuous;

informal miles away, not with us.

▷antonyms attentive, alert.

verb

(stress on the second syllable)

□ absent oneself

it might be advisable for Jenny to absent herself during my visit:

stay away, keep away, be absent, withdraw, retire, take one's leave, remove oneself, slip away, take oneself off, abscond;

South Asian abstain;

informal slope off.

▷antonyms attend, be present.

absent Oxford Dictionary of English