absent
adjective
• not present in a place, at an occasion, or as part of something.
• "most pupils were absent from school at least once"
Similar:
away,
off,
out,
not present,
non-attending,
truant,
not working,
not at work,
off duty,
on leave,
gone,
missing,
lacking,
unavailable,
non-existent,
in absentia,
AWOL,
on holiday,
bunking off,
skiving,
wagging,
• (of an expression or manner) showing that someone is not paying attention to what is being said or done.
• "she looked up with an absent smile"
Similar:
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,
miles away,
not with us,
absent
verb
• go away or remain away.
• "halfway through the meal, he absented himself from the table"
Similar:
stay away,
keep away,
be absent,
withdraw,
retire,
take one's leave,
remove oneself,
slip away,
take oneself off,
abscond,
slope off,
absent
preposition
• without.
• "absent a willingness to negotiate, you can't have collective bargaining"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin absens, absent- ‘being absent’, present participle of abesse, from ab- ‘from, away’ + esse ‘to be’.
