• disassociated from any specific instance an abstract entity
  • sufficiently factual formal possessed only an abstract right
  • pressing a quality apart from an object the word poem is concrete, poetry is abstract
  • personal detached the abstract compassion of a surgeon Time
  • to draw away [v -ED, -ING, -S] / difficult to understand [adj ABSTRACTER, ABSTRACTEST]
  • difficult to understand [adj ABSTRACTER, ABSTRACTEST] / to take away [v ABSTRACTED, ABSTRACTING, ABSTRACTS]