Absent

Adjective

 * 1) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
 * 2) Not existing; lacking.
 * 3) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.

Preposition

 * 1) Without.

Verb

 * 1)  To go away from a place; to leave.
 * 2)  To withhold from being present

Adverbs for Absent
conspicuously; unfortunately; unaccountably; frequently; irritatingly; apparently; voluntarily; inexcusably;  noticeably;  purposely; inexplainably; mysteriously; carelessly; usually; provokingly.

Synonyms for Absent
missing, away, nonexistent, void, truant, blank, withdrawn.

Antonyms for Absent
present, attending, existing, remaining, here.

Related terms
absence; absentee; absenteeism

Thesaurus
absconded; absentminded; absorbed; abstracted; away; bemused; castle-building; daydreaming; daydreamy; deficient; deleted; departed; disappeared; distrait; dreaming; dreamy; drowsing; ecstatic; elsewhere; engrossed; faraway; forgetful; gone; half-awake; heedless; in a reverie; in the clouds; keep away from; lacking; lost; lost in thought; meditative; missing; mooning; moonraking; museful; musing; napping; no longer present; nodding; nonattendant; nonexistent; not found; not present; oblivious; off; omitted; out; out of sight; pensive; pipe-dreaming; preoccupied; rapt; somewhere else; stargazing; subtracted; taken away; taken up; transported; unconscious; vanished; wanting; withdraw from; woolgathering; wrapped in thought

Etymology 1
From absent: <  ausent: <  absent-:, the stem of absens:, present participle of abesse:, formed from ab: + esse:.

Etymology 2
From absente:

Etymology 3
From absenter:, from  absentare:.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/{b"sEnt/}}
 * ,, {{SAMPA|/{b.s@nt/}}

Translations

 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 缺席
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fraværende
 * Dutch: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: απών


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 欠席する
 * Latin:
 * Maltese: nieqes
 * Norwegian: fraværende
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: absent, absentă, neprezent
 * Russian: отсутствующий
 * Slovene: odsoten
 * Spanish: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: несъществуващ
 * Dutch:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian: fraværende
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: absent, inexistent, inexistentă, neexistent
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian: անջատված
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 缺席
 * Dutch:, verstrooid
 * German: (geistig) abwesend
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: fraværende
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: neatent, distrat, absent
 * Spanish: ,


 * : absenta
 * : absen, tidak hadir
 * : absente
 * : absenti
 * : absenti


 * Dutch:, ,


 * Ancient Greek:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Malay:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Ancient Greek:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Greek: {{t+|el|λείπω}|sc=Grek}},


 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * abnets

Etymology
Borrowed from absens:.

Adjective

 * 1) absent
 * 2) absent-minded

Noun

 * 1) absentee; missing person

Anagrams

 * basent

Adjective

 * 1) absent

Related terms

 * absenta
 * absentare
 * absentat
 * absenteism
 * absenteist
 * absență