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as in: abstract thought Define
of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
or more rarely:
describing someone as distracted -- thinking about something outside of the immediate conversation or circumstances
- Besides, she was too unhappy now to pursue an abstraction.
- We all agree that we want what’s "best for the country", but that is an abstract concept and we cannot agree on which specific laws should be passed.
- She struggles with abstract reasoning.
- He was sixty years old and his crisp curly hair was silver-white, but his shrewd face was unlined and his hard little blue eyes were young with the unworried youthfulness of one who has never taxed his brain with problems more abstract than how many cards to draw in a poker game.
- Archie and Scarlett were a queerly assorted pair, the truculent dirty old man with his wooden peg sticking stiffly out over the dashboard and the pretty, neatly dressed young woman with forehead puckered in an abstracted frown.
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as in: abstract thought Define
of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
or more rarely:
describing someone as distracted -- thinking about something outside of the immediate conversation or circumstances
as in: read the abstract
Define
a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing
as in: abstract art
Define
not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
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. . . enhancing vocabulary while reading |