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absent English

Meaning absent meaning

What does absent mean?
Definitions in simple English

absent Adjective

— If something is absent, it means to be not in a place or missing. John is absent from school today.

absent Verb

— When you absent yourself from something, you do not turn up for it and not appear. John absented himself from the meeting as he had something on.

absent Preposition

— Absent means without or barring. Absent any problems, we should be finished in two hours.

absent

— adjective not being in a specified place — verb go away or leave He absented himself — adjective (= absentminded, scatty) lost in thought; showing preoccupation an absent stare an absentminded professor the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence — adjective (= lacking) nonexistent the thumb is absent her appetite was lacking

Synonyms absent synonyms

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absent English » English

missing not present away gone lacking wanting not be absent-minded scatty abstracted without out nonexistent non-existent faraway disappear absentminded unmindful stay away remove not here none lack inattentive empty distant depart be away be absent abstract absent oneself absence withdrawn vacant unreal truant traveller staying abroad skip sans run out remote present play truant on a journey omit oblivious not arrived not all there nonobjective

Topics absent topics

What do people use absent to talk about?
States Location Be at a place

Absent
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Leave

Conjugation absent conjugation

How do you conjugate absent?

absent · verb

Examples absent examples

How do I use absent in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom is absent.
That is why so many students are absent today.
Tell me the reason why they are absent.
She is often absent without leave.
She's been absent from school for five days.
Tom wanted to know why Mary was absent.
The lessons were canceled because a large number of pupils were absent.
Why were you absent yesterday?
Why did you absent yourself from class yesterday?
Who is absent?
Half of the students are absent.
Half the students were absent.
Was anybody else absent?
Both Nancy and Jane were absent from school.
Tell me why he was absent.
Having a bad cold, he was absent from school today.
Why were you absent from school yesterday?

Movie subtitles

Femoral absent, carotid absent.
Actually, now you come to mention it, he was a little absent-minded.
An absent minded husband.
Methinks, from such a feast the heir to King Attilla's crowns should not be absent!
We drink to the welfare of our absent ski-master.
It'll have to be absent treatment, I'm afraid.
See here, Julia. you're counting too much on my absent-mindedness.
For one thing, he was too absent-minded to hold a grudge.
Chadwick, I will be absent few weeks. I do not know how long I remember my business - Sir Humphrey.
I've never been called absent-minded before.
I almost forgot the time. I'm getting sort of absent-minded.
Both absent-minded. - You think so?
I like absent-minded people.
Absent. Vanished.
Some absent-minded chap might mislay a piece or two, in a manner of speaking, on the way up from the wreck.
All great men are absent-minded. It's a sign you're smart.
We pick up a piece of candy absent-mindedly and then we take another piece.
What? Well it struck me that Mr. Morgan looked pretty absent-minded most of the time. And he's certainly dressing better than he used to.
Now, for a singer to deliberately absent herself from the stage during a performance is a gross breach of.
He is absent. Pity.
Are you becoming suspicious as well as absent-minded, Paula?
You're the absent-minded professor.
I'm absent-minded.
This time. I placed it in Madam Morlot's bedroom. knowing she was absent.
Absent. Vanished. Gone.
Both absent-minded.
All great men are absent-minded.
Don't get absent-minded and marry somebody else.
He's absent.
Doriani is absent!
A pat on the head, an occasional hug, absent-minded kiss now and then.

News and current affairs

It is too painful to believe that humanity would destroy millions of other species - and jeopardize our own future - in a fit of absent-mindedness.
Absent a clear path to a much tighter fiscal and political union, which can lead only through constitutional change, the current halfway house of the euro system appears increasingly untenable.
Violence is conspicuously absent from the list.
Moreover, carrying a huge debt burden runs the risk that global interest rates will rise in the future, even absent a Greek-style meltdown.
Absent a change in trader beliefs, the current oil price spike will be broken only by a recession that exhausts consumers' capacity to buffer higher prices, or when the slow process of substitution away from oil kicks in.
Protectionist trade measures, perhaps in the form of a stiff US tariff on Chinese imports, would be profoundly self-destructive, even absent the inevitable retaliatory measures.
In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know - even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation, opaque corporations, and the like are not.
At the start of the process, China will have small and indirect ownership stakes in a great many US enterprises, and the odds are that the usual objections will be absent.
Some minor revisions to the final report might be made, but the procedures of a real parliamentary democracy-proposal, debate, and resolution-remain absent.
One of the most efficient tax-raising methods is the US payroll tax, for which the marginal tax rate is close to the average rate (because deductions are absent and there is little graduation in the rate structure).
Entirely absent from these models are the negative effects of more government and uncertainty about how fiscal problems will be resolved.
Absent further trade agreements, there is a big risk that the pace of globalization will slow, with profound consequences for global poverty and welfare.
Absent a visible payoff, reform fatigue is setting in.
Israeli leaders were aware of Hamas's buildup of medium-range missiles, mostly smuggled through Sinai in underground tunnels, but continue to argue that, absent the siege, Iran and others would supply more (and more sophisticated) weapons.
Europe, of course, has no significant centralized tax authority, so this key automatic stabilizer is essentially absent.
But the will to achieve this division is, sadly, absent among most people in power.
How much more worrying, then, is such concentrated ownership in new democracies and developing countries, where the check of civil society is mostly absent?
Nonetheless, in hindsight, containment infused an order and organization on US foreign policy that is absent today.
In the United States, cautionary voices have been notably absent even among staunchly liberal newspapers like The New York Times.
She will continue to emphasize close relations with France because there is no alternative; Britain, absent from the euro zone and the Schengen border regime, remains the odd man-in of the EU.
How many children will miss out on education because teachers are absent due to low wages, or simply because poor children must work to supplement their family income?
Thus, absent a recession, demand has remained largely unchanged over the past year.
The captured uranium was not weapons-grade; international inspectors removed all sensitive material from Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War (which is why it was absent when the United States invaded in 2003).
Britain, absent from the euro zone and the Schengen border regime, remains the odd man-in of the EU.
Viewpoints that deviate in the slightest from Party doctrine are still absent from Chinese TV.

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