absent

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; (sometimes) missing.not-comparable

• Owing to his own illness and then his family's, Ramzi has often been absent from class this month. We will help him catch up with his studies.
• When they were able to return to the clinic some months later, certain pieces of equipment were absent.

Not existing.not-comparable

• The body part was rudimentary or absent in 1% of specimens.
• Empathy seemed to be absent from the messages.

Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.comparable

• Tom was there, but he seemed absent and withdrawn. Normally he is quite present [= engaged] during a meeting.

Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.with-definite-article

• The Applause he met with exceeds all belief of the Absent.

An absentee; a person who is not there.Scotlandobsolete

In the absence of; without; except.

• Absent taxes modern governments cannot function.

To keep (oneself) away.reflexive

• Most of the men are retired, jobless, or have otherwise temporarily absented themselves from the workplace.

To keep (someone) away.archaictransitive

• Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more;

Stay away; withdraw.intransitiveobsolete

• The iron rule of the plantation, always passionately and violently enforced in that neighborhood, makes flogging the penalty of failing to be in the field before sunrise in the morning, unless special permission be given to the absenting sl

Leave.raretransitive

To omit.raretransitive

• When we realize that the digitalisation of the image involves - by reducing and even absenting - the role of 'the physical', the 'sensuous' (by reducing and eventually absenting the indexical aspects of the image) […]
• Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.