| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of not being present |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, French leave, absenteeism, cut*, hooky, no show, nonappearance, nonattendance, truancy, vacancy |
Antonyms: |
existence, presence |
| 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: | deserter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fugitive from responsibility |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absconder, apostate, backslider, betrayer, criminal, defector, delinquent, derelict, escapee, escaper, hookey player, lawbreaker, maroon, no-show, recreant, refugee, renegade, runaway, shirker, slacker, traitor, truant |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking away; getaway |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat, bolt, break, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, flight, freedom, hegira, lam, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, runaround, shunning, sidestepping, slip, spring, withdrawal |
Antonyms: |
capture, maintenance, stay |
| 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retired, run-off, shifted, spent, split, taken a powder, taken leave, transferred, traveling, turned to dust, vanished, withdrawn |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 |
| Main Entry: | missing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gone, absent |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, astray, away, disappeared, lacking, left behind, left out, lost, mislaid, misplaced, not present, nowhere to be found, omitted, removed, short, unaccounted for, wanting |
Antonyms: |
found, here, present |
| Main Entry: | truant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absent |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absent without leave, astray, away, cutting class, gone, hooky, missing, no-show, not present, playing hooky, skipping school |
| Main Entry: | absent without leave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absent without permission |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, French leave, absent from duty, desertion, hooky, truancy, unauthorized absence |
| Main Entry: | French leave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abrupt departure |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absent without leave, absenteeism, cut, hooky, secret departure, truancy, unannounced departure |
| Main Entry: | hooky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, French leave, absenteeism, no show, nonappearance, nonattendance, truancy, truantry, vacancy |
