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abstracted

adjective as in preoccupied

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So I enrolled right away for programming classes, and found them boringly abstracted.

“Throughout shooting, Sandra was completely abstracted from all the technology,” says Cuarón.

In a society that has exoticized and abstracted the military, MacLeish re-humanizes it.

I saw Roscoe looking at him in an abstracted way, and, as he did not reply, I said: "Phil had many friends and no enemies."

Strange to say, the pail from which the can had been abstracted stood unmoved in its accustomed place.

Then Caro became abstracted, wondering why George Tanqueray was coming, and to this particular show.

She was if anything more restless; unnaturally (he said) abstracted when you spoke to her; hardly aware of you at times.

"I must have that flute," repeated the grocer, in the same abstracted tone and manner.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to abstracted, such as: engrossed, preoccupied, withdrawn, absent-minded, inattentive, and lost in thought.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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