Abstracted

a.	1.	Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. - Milton.
	2.	Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.
	3.	Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
	4.	Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.

Adj.	1.	abstracted - taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead Synonyms: removed
	2.	abstracted - lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" Synonyms: absentminded, scatty, absent

abbreviated, absent, absentminded, absorbed, bemused, bobbed, buried in thought, capsule, capsulized, castle-building, clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short, daydreaming, daydreamy, digested, distrait, docked, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elided, elliptic, elsewhere, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, faraway, half-awake, heedless, immersed in thought, in a reverie, in the clouds, inattentive, intent, introspective, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, mowed, mown, museful, musing, napping, nipped, nodding, oblivious, occupied, pensive, pipe-dreaming, pollard, polled, preoccupied, pruned, rapt, reaped, shaved, sheared, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, somewhere else, stargazing, taken up, transported, trimmed, unconscious, unmindful, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

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