Definitions for absent

Overview of verb absent

The verb absent has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) absent, remove

(go away or leave; "He absented himself")

Overview of adj absent

The adj absent has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (12) absent

(not being in a specified place)

2. lacking, absent, missing, wanting

(nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking")

3. absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty

(lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence")