| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, astray, away, elsewhere, ghost, gone, hooky, missing, no-show, nobody home, removed, vanished |
Antonyms: |
attending, existing, present |
| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deficient in something needed or usual |
Synonyms: |
bare, blank, devoid, empty, hollow, lacking, minus, missing, nonexistent, omitted, unavailable, vacant, vacuous, wanting |
Antonyms: |
sufficient |
| Main Entry: | absentee |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not being present |
Synonyms: |
absent, distant, oblivious, remote |
| Main Entry: | absent-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out to lunch |
Synonyms: |
absent, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, careless, daydreaming, distracted, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, goofing off, head in the clouds, heedless, inattentive, inconscient, lost, mooning, moony, oblivious, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, space cadet, spacey, spacey, surroundings, unaware of events, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, woolgathering |
Antonyms: |
alert, attentive, aware |
| Main Entry: | away |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | in another direction; at a distance |
Synonyms: |
abroad, absent, afar, apart, aside, beyond, distant, elsewhere, far afield, far away, far off, far remote, forth, from here, hence, not present, off, out of, out of the way, over, to one side |
| Main Entry: | depart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | leave, retreat |
Synonyms: |
abandon, abdicate, absent, beat it, blast off, cut and run, cut out, decamp, desert, disappear, emigrate, escape, evacuate, exit, get away, git, go, go away, go forth, hit the bricks, hit the road, hit the trail, make a break, march out, migrate, move on, move out, part, perish, pull out, quit, remove, retire, sally forth, say goodbye, scram, secede, set forth, shove off, slip away, split*, start, start out, take leave, tergiversate, troop, vacate, vanish, withdraw |
Antonyms: |
arrive, come, enter |
| Main Entry: | elsewhere |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | in another place |
Synonyms: |
abroad, absent, away, formerly, gone, hence, not here, not present, not under consideration, otherwhere, outside, remote, removed, somewhere, somewhere else, subsequently |
| Main Entry: | faraway |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | remote, distant |
Synonyms: |
absent, abstracted, beyond the horizon, distant, dreamy, far, far-flung, far-off, far-removed, lost, outlying, preoccupied, quite a ways, removed, well away |
Antonyms: |
close, near |
| Main Entry: | forgetful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to not remember |
Synonyms: |
absent, absent-minded, abstracted, airheaded, amnemonic, amnesic, asleep on the job, bemused, careless, distracted, dreamy, heedless, inattentive, lax, like an absent-minded professor, looking out window, mooning, moony, neglectful, negligent, nirvanic, not on the job, oblivious, out of it, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, preoccupied, remiss, slack, sloppy, unmindful, unwitting, woolgathering |
Antonyms: |
attentive, mindful, recalling, remembering, retentive |
| Main Entry: | gone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present, no longer in existence |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absent, astray, away, burned up, consumed, dead, decamped, deceased, defunct, departed, disappeared, disintegrated, displaced, dissipated, dissolved, done, down the drain, dried up, elapsed, ended, extinct, finished, flown, lacking, left, lost, missing, moved, no more, nonextant, not a sign of, not here, out the window, over, passed, past, quit, removed, retired, run-off, shifted, spent, split, taken a powder, taken leave, transferred, traveling, turned to dust, vanished, withdrawn |
Antonyms: |
around, current, existing, present, working |