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Definitions: Absent |
AbsentAdjective1. Not in a specified place physically or mentally. 2. Lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence". Verb1. Go away or leave; "He absented himself". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "absent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another. To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead. Jogo Tyree. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | Condition in which the value of the signal is lower than the set standard. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Absent "Out of mind as soon as out of sight." Generally misquoted "Out of sight, out of mind." - Lord Brooke. The absent are always wrong. The translation of the French proverb, Les absents ont toujours tort. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ABS | English | Absent Subscriber/Office Closed | N/A |
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Synonyms: AbsentSynonyms: absentminded (adj), abstracted (adj), scatty (adj), remove (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: absenting (computing). |
| Antonym: present (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence | Verb: be absent; Adjective: keep away, keep out of the way; play truant, absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof. |
Adjective: absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence. | |
Absence makes the heart grow fonder; "absent in body but present in spirit"; absento nemo ne nocuisse velit; "Achilles absent was Achilles still"; aux absents les os; briller par son absence; "conspicuous by his absence"; "in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet". | |
Inattention | Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping. |
Incogitancy | Adjective: vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous; absent; (inattentive); diverted; irrational; narrow-minded. |
Inexistence | Adjective: inexistent, nonexistent; negative, blank; missing, omitted; absent insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Del, were you absent the day they taught, 'Think it, don't say it?' (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) It just dawned on me! This scroll of Broken Sword's isn't about sword technique but about swordsmanship's ultimate ideal. Swordsmanship's first achievement is the unity of man and sword. Once this unity is attained, even a blade of grass can be a weapon. The second achievement is when the sword exists in one's heart when absent from one's hand. (Ying xiong; writing credit: Feng Li; Bin Wang) You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than build relationships with those around her? (Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le; writing credit: Guillaume Laurant; Jean-Pierre Jeunet) It usually is. So far this semester he has been absent nine times. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Absent Minded Professor (1961) Absent Minded (1930) The Absent Minded Poet (1923) Absent Minded Willie (1917) L' Absent (1997) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Reade | The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. |
Homer | Achilles absent was Achilles still! |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. |
John Donne | Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Greater things are believed of those who are absent. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. |
Sextus Aurelius Propertius | Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. |
Sir Matthew Hale | Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. |
Thomas p Kempis | Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, from having been longer than usual absent from Surry, were exciting of course rather more than the usual interest. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He remained absent one or two days at the most. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If rabies virus is absent there will be no staining. (references) | |
Atypical melanocytes may be absent or scant and randomly scattered through the lesion. (references) | ||
But if the sleep attacks are isolated and cataplexy is mild or absent, diagnosis is more difficult. (references) | ||
Business | There are absent non-tariff barriers on U.S. products. (references) | |
Third-country competition from outside the EU is distinctly absent. (references) | ||
It is nearly absent in the informal sector, despite government efforts. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Slovak Republic | The Roma minority continued to be largely absent on talk shows and children's programming; however, the situation improved slightly during the year. (references) |
Djibouti | The Government offers first asylum; however, the government committee responsible for determining refugees' status has not met since 1995. While the Government officially does not recognize those refugees under the protection of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) absent this approval, the refugees are permitted to remain in the country. (references) | |
Economic History | Benin | By the same token, performance requirements are absent. (references) |
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Coulibaly was absent from his home in Niemene village at the time. (references) |
Peru | She was charged with disobedience and being absent without permission. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | A female police officer must be present during the search of a private home when male family members are absent. (references) | |
Minorities | Congo | Since the beginning of the war, Tutsis have been absent from the Government. (references) |
Panama | Blacks are conspicuously absent from positions of political and economic power. (references) | |
Political Economy | MEXICO | Enforcement is reasonably good at medium and large companies but is inadequate at small companies and in agriculture and is nearly absent in the informal sector. (references) |
Political Rights | Haiti | During the 5 days of riots, the police were largely absent. (references) |
Uruguay | In 2000 for the first time, an Afro-Uruguayan elected as an alternate deputy substituted in legislative sessions for an absent deputy for approximately 10 days. (references) | |
Guinea | There were no charges of widespread, systematic obstruction of pollwatchers, but opposition pollwatchers often were absent from heavily pro-Conte areas, suggesting at least selective obstruction. (references) | |
Trade | Chad | This is not required; however, if the packing list is absent from shipping documents, customs clearance will be slowed. (references) |
Botswana | SADC's most ambitious protocol to date is its Trade Protocol, signed in August 1996 by eleven member states (Angola was absent, DROC and Seychelles joined SADC later). (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | Decision-makers in both public and private sectors can be expected to be absent from Qatar during some part of the period June to September. (references) |
Women | Maldives | Under Islamic practice, husbands may divorce their wives more easily than vice versa, absent any mutual agreement to divorce. (references) |
Papua New Guinea | Traditional village mores, which served as deterrents, are weakening and largely are absent when youths move from their village to a larger town or to the capital. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Under the Criminal Procedure Code, prosecutors may not initiate a rape case, absent aggravating circumstances such as gang rape, unless the victim files a complaint. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mexico | It was nearly absent in the informal sector, and the government's efforts to enforce the law stalled. (references) |
Bulgaria | Protective clothing often was absent from hazardous areas (for example, goggles for welders and helmets for construction workers). (references) | |
Syria | Even if a person is absent from work without notice for a long period, the employer must follow a lengthy procedure of trying to find the person and notify him, including through newspaper notices, before he is able to take any action against the employee. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Say to absent parents who aren't paying their child support, if you're not providing for your children, we'll garnish your wages, suspend your license, track you across state lines, and if necessary, make some of you work off what you owe. |
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| "Absent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.98% of the time. "Absent" is used about 1,565 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.98% | 1,502 | 5,420 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.55% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.47% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,565 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "absent": Absent healing ♦ absent insubstantial ♦ absent minded ♦ absent on leave ♦ absent oneself ♦ absent oneself from ♦ absent ring ♦ absent subscriber service ♦ absent without leave ♦ ask for permission to be absent ♦ be absent ♦ be absent from school ♦ be absent without excuse ♦ Kofutu Absent Healing ♦ locally absent ring ♦ person temporarily absent ♦ those absent. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "absent": absent-for, Absent-minded, Absent-mindedly, Absent-mindedness, absent-without-leave. | |
Ending with "absent": long-absent, never-absent, present-absent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
absent father | 28 |
absent minded professor | 11 |
absent | 10 |
absent parent | 10 |
absent seizure | 9 |
absent without leave | 9 |
absent period | 9 |
absent minded | 8 |
absent body from | 6 |
absent friend | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "absent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | afwesig, absent. (various references) | |
Albanian | që mungon (failing, missing, wanting), i hutuar (abashed, absentminded, bewildered, confused, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, foggy, inadvertent, muddle-headed, perplexed, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, vague). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفقود (lost, missing, wanting), متخلف (ataxy, backward, behind one's back, falling behind, lagging, sloven, truant, underdeveloped), لا وجود له, غائب (away, truant, wanting), تغيب عن, ذاهل (at sea, distracted, distraught, faraway, moonstruck). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разсеян (absent minded, diffuse, disseminated, distrait, forgetful, moony, oblivious, preoccupied, rare, scatter-brained, stray, unmindful, vacant, wandering, wool gathering), отсъствуващ (absentee, missing), липсващ (failing, lacking, missing). (various references) | |
Catalan | absent. (various references) | |
Chinese | 缺席 (Absence, Absently). (various references) | |
Czech | roztržitý (absent minded, absentminded, abstracted, distracted, preoccupied), nepřítomný (blank, faraway, vacant), nejít. (various references) | |
Danish | fraværende. (various references) | |
Dutch | verstrooid (absent-minded, abstracted, dispersed, distracted, sporadic), afwezig (absent-minded). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mankanta, forestanta, foresta, distriĝema (absent-minded, abstracted). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fara avstað (absent onself, depart, go away, leave), burtur í øðrun heimi (absent-minded, abstracted, distracted). (various references) | |
Farsi | پریشان خیال (Uneasy), مفقود (Lost), غیرموجود, غایب (Away). (various references) | |
Finnish | poissaoleva. (various references) | |
French | absent (absentee). (various references) | |
Frisian | ôfwêzich. (various references) | |
German | abwesend (absent minded, absently, away, vacantly). (various references) | |
Greek | απών (absentee, away, missing, no show). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא כח, אי וכח, פק" (absentee, counted, depositee, enumerated, missing), ע"ר (absentee, lacking, missing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hiányzó (absentee, lacking, missing, unaccounted, wanting). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fara (absent onself, depart, go away, go/leave, leave). (various references) | |
Indonesian | absen, tak hadir (default), meninggalkan (abandon, forsake, leave), mangkir (truant). (various references) | |
Italian | assente (absentee, blank, faraway), mancante (incomplete, missing, no show, omitted, wanting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 慌て者 (absent-minded person, scatterbrain). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうし" (absent-mindedness, dejection, losing consciousness, slim figure, stupor, transmission, weight reduction), きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, ex-, gather, gift, globe, nine, rest, retire, sleep, sphere, steep, sudden, taking a day off, urgent, wage), ぼうぜ" (absent-mindedly, dumbfounded, in a daze, in blank amazement, overcome with surprise), ぼ"やり (absent-minded, block-head, dim, faint, vague), うわのそら (absent-mindedness, inattention), か'ぜ" (tray for absent one), あわてもの (absent-minded person, scatterbrain), やすむ (to be absent, to be finished, to have a break, to rest, to retire, to sleep, to take a day off). (various references) | |
Korean | 결석하". (various references) | |
Malay | absen, tidak hadir. (various references) | |
Manx | shaghrynagh (abberant, bewildering, devious, disjointed, drifter, errant, misleading, stray, strayer, truant, wandering), neuaaragh (absentee, abstentionist), assaaragh (absentee), ass eanish. (various references) | |
Norwegian | fraværende. (various references) | |
Papiamen | ousente. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | absentay.(various references) | |
Polish | nieobecny. (various references) | |
Portuguese | ausente (absented, absentee, away, off, out, person presumed to be absent, wanting). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | ausente. (various references) | |
Romanian | absent (absent minded, absentee, absently, absent-mindedly, abstracted, abstractedly, away, far away, gone, missing, omitted, out). (various references) | |
Russian | отсутствующий (absentee, absentees, missing). (various references) | |
Scottish | imich (absent onself, depart, go, go away, leave), falbh (absent onself, depart, go away, go falbhan, going, gone away, leave, leaving, to leave, walking : air falbh), f g (abandon, absent onself, depart, forsake, go away, leave, quit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odsutan (lacking). (various references) | |
Spanish | ausente (absented, absentee, missing, no show, out, truant). (various references) | |
Swahili | hako. (various references) | |
Swedish | frånvarande (absent minded, absentee, absently, dreamy, far off, faraway, preoccupied), borta (afield, aloof, away, gone, missing, out, over, with the wind). (various references) | |
Turkish | yok (ain't, away, nay, no, nope, not, there is not, unavailable). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sцlpi (absent-minded, sloppy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | відсутній (absentee, lacking, missing, non-available, null, unavailable, wanting), відлучитися, неуважний (absentminded, abstracted, careless, distrait, erratic, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague), бути відсутнім (be away, stop away). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vắng mặt, nghỉ lơ đãng, đi vắng. (various references) | |
Welsh | absenoli, absennol. (various references) | |
Yucatec | luk'ul (absent onself, depart, escape, flee, go away, leave, run away). (various references) | |
Zulu | -suka (absent onself, depart, go away, leave), -hamba (absent onself, depart, go, go away, leave, travel, walk). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | absens. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | absentare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 49 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai h orasiV hn eipen epidoi o qeoV ana meson emou kai sou oti aposthsomeqa eteroV apo tou eterou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Intueatur Dominus et iudicet inter nos quando recesserimus a nobis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Laban leide to, The Lord biholde, and deme bitwixen vs, whanne we shulen goo from vs; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And this totehill which the lorde seeth (sayde he) be wytnesse betwene me and the when we are departed one from a nother: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 49 |
| Bulgarian | и Масфа§, защото думаше: "оспод да бди между мене и тебе, когато сме далеч един от друг. |
| Cebuano | Ug Mizpa, kay matud niya: Magabantay si Jehova sa taliwala kanako ug kanimo, kong kita managbulag ang usa ug usa. |
| Chinese | 又 叫 米 斯 巴 、 意 思 說 、 我 們 彼 此 離 別 以 後 、 願 耶 ' 華 在 我 中 " ' 察 。 |
| Croatian | ali i Mispa, jer je rekao. "Neka Jahve bude na vidu i tebi i meni kad jedan drugog ne budemo gledali. |
| Danish | og Mizpa; thi han sagde: "HERREN skal stå Vagt mellem mig og dig, når vi skilles. |
| Dutch | En Mizpa; omdat hij zeide: Dat de HEERE opzicht neme tussen mij en tussen u, wanneer wij de een van den ander zullen verborgen zijn! |
| Finnish | ja myöskin nimen Mispa, sillä hän sanoi: "Herra olkoon vartija meidän välillämme, minun ja sinun, kun joudumme loitolle toistemme näkyvistä. |
| French | On l`appelle aussi Mitspa, parce que Laban dit: Que l`Éternel veille sur toi et sur moi, quand nous nous serons l`un et l`autre perdus de vue. |
| German | und sei eine Warte; denn er sprach: Der HERR sehe darein zwischen mir und dir, wenn wir voneinander kommen, |
| Haitian Creole | Laban di ankò: -Se pou Bondye voye je sou nou tout de lè nou fin separe. Se konsa yo rele kote sa a Mispa. |
| Hungarian | És Miczpának, mivelhogy mondá: Az Úr legyen vigyázó közöttem és te közötted, a mikor egymástól elválunk. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Laban berkata juga, "Semoga TUHAN mengawasi kita selama kita hidup berjauhan." Karena itu tempat itu dinamakan juga Mizpa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan lagi Mizpa, karena katanya: Hendaklah Tuhan menunggu antara aku dengan dikau, setelah kita bercerai seorang dengan seorang. |
| Italian | e anche Mizpa, perché disse: «Il Signore star di vedetta tra me e te, quando noi non ci vedremo più l'un l'altro. |
| Korean | 또 미 스 " 라 하 였 으 니 이 " 그 의 말 에 ` 우 리 " 차 나 있 을 때 에 여 호 와 께 서 너 와 나 사 이 에 감 찰 하 옵 소 서' 함 이 라 |
| Maori | Ko Mihipa hoki; i mea hoki ia, Ma Ihowa e titiro mai ki a taua, ina matara atu taua i a taua. |
| Modern Greek | και Μισπα, διοτι ειπεν, Ας επιβλεψη ο Κυριος αναμεσον εμου και σου, οταν αποχωρισθωμεν ο εις απο του αλλου· |
| Norwegian | og tillike Mispa*, fordi han sa: Herren holde vakt mellem mig og dig, når vi kommer hverandre av syne; # <* d.e. et sted hvorfra en skuer vidt omkring.> |
| Portuguese | e também Mizpá, porquanto disse: Vigie o Senhor entre mim e ti, quando estivermos apartados um do outro. |
| Rumanian | Se mai numewte wi Miypa (Veghiere), pentrucq Laban a zis: ,,Domnul sq vegheze asupra mea wi asupra ta, cknd ne vom pierde din vedere unul pe altul. |
| Spanish | o Mizpa, pues dijo: --Vigile Jehovah entre tú y yo, cuando nos apartemos el uno del otro. |
| Swedish | men det kallades ock Mispa*, ty han sade: "HERREN vare väktare mellan mig och dig, när vi icke mer se varandra. |
| Thai | และมิสปาห์ เพราะเขากล่าวว่า "พระเยโฮวาห์ทรงเฝ้าอยู่ระหว่างเรากับเจ้า เมื่อเราจากกันไป |
| Ukrainian | і Міцпа, бо сказав: Нехай дивиться "осподь між мною й між тобою, коли ми розійдемося один від одного. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "absent": absented, absentee, absenteeism, absenteeisms, absentees, absenter, absenters, absenting, absently, absentminded, absentmindedly, absentmindedness, absentmindednesses, absents. (additional references) | |
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"Absent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abbsant, abcent, abdent, abeen, aben, abient, ablent, absat, abscent, absen, absente, absenth, absenti, absentt, absinity, absit, acsent, adbent, asant, Asenoth, Aysen, Basena, Bassatne, bsent, Ipsenta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "absent" (pronounced a"bsunt) |
| 4 | -s u n t | adjacent, adolescent, antidepressant, complacent, complaisant, convalescent, conversant, Crescent, decent, depressant, dispersant, docent, effervescent, evanescent, fluorescent, incandescent, incessant, indecent, innocent, iridescent, lucent, luminescent, magnificent, nascent, obsolescent, preadolescent, quiescent, recent, reminiscent, reticent, suppressant, translucent, tumescent. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complainant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convenient, convent, convergent, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, luxuriant, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: abets, antes, banes, baste, bates, beans, beast, beats, bents, betas, etnas, nabes, nates, neats, stane, tabes. | |
-2 letters: abet, anes, ante, ants, ates, bane, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, bean, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, east, eats, etas, etna, nabe, nabs, neat, nebs, nest, nets, sabe, sane, sate, seat, sent, seta, stab, tabs, tans, teas, tens. | |
-3 letters: abs, ane, ant, ate, ban, bas, bat, ben, bet, eat, ens, eta, nab, nae, neb, net, sab, sae, sat, sea, sen, set, tab, tae, tan, tas, tea, ten. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, an, as, at, ba, be, en, es, et, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: absents, bannets, banters, banties, basinet, batsmen, battens, bezants, butanes. | |
+2 letters: abluents, absented, absentee, absenter, absently, absinthe, ambients, antbears, banister, banquets, bantengs, barniest, baronets, bartends, basement, basinets, bassinet, bayonets, beatings, beatniks, bedstand, bepaints, betaines, bethanks, bezzants, blandest, blankest, blankets, boatsmen, botanies, botanise, cabinets, instable, nestable, niobates, notables, obeisant, ratsbane, snakebit, stonable, subagent, sunbathe, unstable, urbanest. | |
+3 letters: abasement, abashment, aberrants, abetments, abnegates, absentees, absenters, absenting, absinthes, absorbent, abstained, abstainer, abstinent, abutments, adsorbent, bacterins, bailments, ballonets, banisters, banknotes, bannerets, bannister, banterers, baritones, barrenest, barytones, basements, basseting, bassinets, bastinade, bastioned, batteners, battiness, beanstalk, beastings, bedstands, benzoates, betatrons, bevatrons, bivalents, blastment, botanised, botanises, botanizes, brainiest, branniest, braunites, brawniest, breadnuts, breasting, bunkmates, butanones, bystander, cabernets, constable, debutants, downbeats, eastbound, entamebas, incubates, intubates, isobutane, libelants, observant, obstinate, obtainers, ratsbanes, reobtains, sanbenito, snakebite, stableman, stablemen, stainable, stoneboat, subagents, subaltern, subjacent, substance, subtenant, sunbathed, sunbather, sunbathes, sweatband, taborines, tailbones, tangibles, thebaines, tribesman, unstabler, urbanites. | |
+4 letters: abasements, abashments, abatements, abducentes, abiogenist, abjections, abjectness, abnegators, abominates, abruptness, absorbents, abstainers, abstention, absterging, abstinence, adsorbents, aitchbones, ambushment, antibioses, antibodies, antirabies, bacchantes, bairnliest, banalities, banditries, bandmaster, banishment, banistered, bannisters, banqueters, banquettes, barbitones, bartenders, bassetting, bastinades, battements, beanstalks, besteading, blastments, blatancies, bombinates, branchiest, branchlets, brattiness, breastbone, breathings, brominates, butadienes, bystanders, carbonates, celebrants, cobaltines, constables, corybantes, debarments, debasement, debutantes, disbarment, embayments, entamoebas, gangbuster, handbasket, heartburns, hibernates, inbreathes, inebriants, inebriates, inhabiters, insatiable, interbasin, investable, isobutanes, libellants, listenable, lobsterman, obeisantly, oblateness, observants, rabbinates, reinhabits, resemblant, sanbenitos, snakebites, stableness, stoneboats, subalterns, subcabinet, subcentral, submediant, substances, subtenancy, subtenants, subtrahend, sunbathers, sweatbands, tablelands, tablespoon, transcribe, tribunates, turbinates, turntables, unstablest, unsuitable, untestable, urbanities, warbonnets. | |
+5 letters: aberrations, abiogenists, abnegations, abolishment, abreactions, abridgments, absenteeism, absorptance, abstentions, abstentious, abstinences, abstinently, alabastrine, ambushments, analphabets, antiobesity, arborescent, babblements, bafflements, bandmasters, banishments, bannerettes, barkentines, barnstormed, barnstormer, baronetages, baronetcies, bastinadoed, bastinadoes, battinesses, battlements, beachfronts, beastliness, beauticians, belatedness, benefactors, bisectional, bladdernuts, blanquettes, brainteaser, breakfronts, breastbones, breathiness, brigantines, cabinetries, conglobates, construable, contestable, debasements, debatements, disablement, disbandment, disbarments, disturbance, embalmments, embankments, embarkments, enjambments, exurbanites, gangbusters, geobotanies, geobotanist, glabrescent, habiliments, handbaskets, hebetations, hibernators, iceboatings, inabilities, inestimable, inestimably, infibulates, inflatables, injectables, inobservant, inscrutable, intangibles, interabangs, interurbans, liberations, melanoblast, mountebanks, noncabinets, nontaxables, notableness, obnubilates, observantly, observation, obstinacies, obstinately, obtainments, outbalances, postponable, potableness, presentable, presentably, rabblements, returnables, roundtables, sandblasted, sandblaster, sauerbraten, snakebitten, stenobathic, subbasement, subinterval, subjacently, submediants, subordinate, substantive, subterminal, subtrahends, suburbanite, sustainable, tabernacles, tablespoons, tambourines, tarnishable, tenableness, timberlands, tobogganers, trabeations, transcribed, transcriber, transcribes, treasonable, treasonably, tunableness, unabsorbent, unballasted, unobservant, unstoppable, vinblastine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 73 65 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... ... . -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b s e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0073 0065 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356885718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Orthography 24. Bibliography |
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