abstract thought
1: thinking that is coherent and logical [syn: {reasoning}, {logical thinking}]
abstracted
1: taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead [syn: {removed}] 2: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absen...
abstractedly
1: in an absent-minded or preoccupied manner; "he read the letter absently" [syn: {absently}, {inattentively}, {absentmindedly}]
abstractedness
1: preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else [syn: {abstraction}]
abstracter
1: one who makes abstracts or summarizes information [syn: {abstractor}]
abstraction
1: a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person" [syn: {abstract}] 2: the act of withdrawing or removing something 3: the process of f...
abstractionism
1: an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation [syn: {abstract art}] 2: a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specifi...
abstractionist
1: not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting" [syn: {abstract}, {nonfigurative}, {nonobjective}] n : a painter of abstract pictures [syn: {abs...
abstractive
1: of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"
abstractly
1: in abstract terms [ant: {concretely}]
abstractness
1: the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object [ant: {concreteness}]
abstractor
1: one who makes abstracts or summarizes information [syn: {abstracter}]
abstruse
1: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory";...
abstrusely
1: in a manner difficult to understand; "the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
abstruseness
1: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand [syn: {obscureness}, {obscurity}, {reconditeness}] [ant: {clarity}] 2: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthr...
abstrusity
1: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" [syn: {reconditeness}, {abstruseness}, {profoundness}, {profundity...
absurd
1: inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman [syn: {unreasonable}] 2: com...
absurdity
1: a message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: {absurdness}, {ridiculousness}] 2: a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior" [syn: {fatuity}, {fatuous...
absurdly
1: in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree; "an absurdly rich young woman"
absurdness
1: a message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: {absurdity}, {ridiculousness}]
Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina
1: Arabian philosopher and physician; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037) [syn: {Avicenna}, {ibn-Sina}]
Abu Dhabi
1: a sheikhdom of eastern Arabia and capital of the United Arab Emirates [syn: {United Arab Emirates's capital}]
Abu Nidal Organization
1: a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries; "in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and...
Abu Sayyaf
1: a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping; "In 2001 Abu Sayya...
Abudefduf
1: damsel fishes [syn: {genus Abudefduf}]
Abudefduf saxatilis
1: large blue-gray black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide [syn: {sergeant major}]
Abuja
1: capital of Nigeria in the center of the country [syn: {capital of Nigeria}, {Nigerian capital}]
Abukir
1: a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt [syn: {Abukir Bay}]
Abukir Bay
1: a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt [syn: {Abukir}]
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abulia
1: a loss of will power [syn: {aboulia}]
abulic
1: suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions [syn: {aboulic}]
abundance
1: the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance" [syn: {copiousness}, {teemingness}] [ant: {scarcity}] 2: (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isot...
abundant
1: present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water" [ant: {scarce}]
abundantly
1: in an abundant manner; "they were abundantly supplied with food"; "he thanked her profusely" [syn: {copiously}, {profusely}, {extravagantly}]
abuse
1: cruel or inhumane treatment [syn: {maltreatment}, {ill-treatment}, {ill-usage}] 2: a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "the...
abused
1: used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance" 2: abused with language [ant: {unabused}] 3: physically abused; "an abused wife" [syn: {ill-treated}, {maltreated}, {mistreate...
abuser
1: someone who abuses [syn: {maltreater}]
abusive
1: expressing offensive reproach [syn: {insulting}, {opprobrious}, {scornful}, {scurrilous}] 2: characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster hom...
abusively
1: in an abusive manner; "he behaved abusively toward his children"
abut
1: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: {border}, {adjoin}, {edge}, {march}, {butt}, {butt against}, {butt on}] [also: {abuttin...
Abutilon
1: herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; parlor maple; indian mallow [syn: {genus Abutilon}]
Abutilon theophrasti
1: tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States [syn: {velvetleaf}, {velvet-...
abutment
1: point of contact between two objects or parts 2: a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge
abutter
1: the owner of contiguous property
abuzz
1: noisy like the sound of a bee; "the room was abuzz over the latest scandal" [syn: {buzzing}, {droning}]
abvolt
1: a unit of potential equal to one-hundred-millionth of a volt
abwatt
1: a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt)
aby
1: make amends for; "expiate one's sins" [syn: {expiate}, {abye}, {atone}] [also: {abye}, {abought}]
Aby Warburg
1: German art historian (1866-1929) [syn: {Warburg}, {Aby Moritz Warburg}]
Abydos
1: an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander
Abyla
1: a promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules [syn: {Jebel Musa}, {Abila}]
abysm
1: a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively) [syn: {abyss}]
abysmal
1: very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity" 2: so deep as to be unmeasurable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean" [syn: {abyssal}, {unfathomable}]
abysmally
1: in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn: {terribly}, {atrociously}, {awfully}, {abominably}, {rottenly}]
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