ABSENT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does absent mean? 

• ABSENT (adjective)
  The adjective ABSENT has 3 senses:

1. not being in a specified place

2. nonexistent

3. lost in thought; showing preoccupation

  Familiarity information: ABSENT used as an adjective is uncommon.

• ABSENT (verb)
  The verb ABSENT has 1 sense:

1. go away or leave

  Familiarity information: ABSENT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not being in a specified place

Similar:

away (not present; having left)

introuvable (impossible to find)

awol; truant (absent without permission)

Attribute:

presence (the state of being present; current existence)

Antonym:

present (being or existing in a specified place)

Derivation:

absence (failure to be present)

absence (the state of being absent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nonexistent

Synonyms:

absent; lacking; missing; wanting

Context example:

her appetite was lacking

Similar:

nonexistent (not having existence or being or actuality)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lost in thought; showing preoccupation

Synonyms:

absent; absentminded; abstracted; scatty

Context example:

the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence

Similar:

inattentive (showing a lack of attention or care)

• ABSENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they absent ... he / she / it absents   
Past simple: absented   
Past participle: absented   
-ing form: absenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go away or leave

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

absent; remove

Context example:

He absented himself

Hypernyms (to "absent" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

absence (failure to be present)

absentee (one that is absent or not in residence)

 Context examples 

It is certain that had he never lived, most of what is correct in their parrot-learned knowledge would be absent.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The evidence includes bits of charcoal, jumbles of rock brought in by a tsunami's backflow, and conspicuously absent sulfur.

(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)

The findings revealed a diet based on the consumption of terrestrial proteins—plants, animal proteins, and dairy products—where seafood was absent.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

I woke up in a strange room, as it seemed to me, and made my way out into the street in a sort of dazed way when you were absent.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One hypothesis for why it appeared absent in ultrahot Jupiters has been that these planets must have formed with very high levels of carbon instead of oxygen.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

The scientists analyzed seawater samples from an ocean region where oxygen is almost absent, forcing life to seek other strategies.

(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)

This pan-genome includes all of the genes from 725 different cultivated and closely related wild tomatoes, which revealed 4,873 genes that were absent from the original reference genome.

(Tomato Pan-Genome Makes Bringing Flavor Back Easier, Agricultural Research Service)

However, these ganglion cells responded to green light even where green cone cells were absent.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

Their findings contrast with previous discoveries that oxygen was absent from all but the top few millimeters to decimeters of sediment in biologically productive regions of the ocean.

(No limit to life in deep sediment of ocean's "deadest" region, NSF)

Perhaps this extended daily fasting period enables repair and maintenance mechanisms that would be absent in a continuous exposure to food.

(Longer daily fasting times improve health and longevity, National Institutes of Health)