English
[adjective ab-strakt, ab-strakt; noun ab-strakt; verb ab-strakt for 10-13, ab-strakt for 14]
adjective
1. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances
2. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed
3. theoretical; not applied or practical
4. difficult to understand; abstruse
noun
5. a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome
6. something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence
7. an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object
8. an abstract work of art
verb (used with the object)
9. to draw or take away; remove
10. to divert or draw away the attention of
11. to steal
12. to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances
13. to make an abstract of; summarize
Idioms
14. abstract away from, to omit from consideration
15. in the abstract, without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory
Examples of Abstract Art
