1. [adjective] Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
2. [adjective] (now) (rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
3. [adjective] (now) (rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
4. [adjective] Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
5. [verb] Simple past tense and past participle of abstract
6. [adjective] Lost in thought; showing preoccupation; 'an absent stare'; 'an absentminded professor'; 'the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence'.
