Synonym: away, lacking, truant. Antonym: present. Similar words: sentiment, subsequent, subsequently, consent, sentence, at present, represent, essentially. Meaning: ['æbsənt] v. go away or leave. adj. 1. not in a specified place physically or mentally 2. lost in thought; showing preoccupation.
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181. Now there is talk of recruiting blacks and Latinos, traditionally absent from the higher union ranks, to more prominent positions.
182. The little birds had assumed the roles of birds that were absent from the area.
183. Not all the notions concerning sacrifice are entirely absent from our lives.
184. He cited a host of causes, from media violence to absent parents to drugs.
185. Requiring this investment will give absent fathers incentive to take a more active personal interest in their children as well.
186. Traffic is horrendous, walking dangerous and any semblance of natural beauty largely absent.
187. This is something manifestly absent from all computer systems that have been constructed to date.
188. Almost entirely absent from many existing school-to-work efforts are the voices of students and parents.
189. Intelligence did not figure. largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.
190. It will not be desired to find all people who absent themselves without leave.
191. I told each one just how his buddy had drug him over the coals when he was absent.
192. Morris's ideas still provoke tension in the Clinton White House, even if Morris is absent from the inner circle.
193. But Shell argues that although it has an obligation to the communities, so has the government, which is largely absent.
194. Allister, Kane, and Dodds have also been noticeably absent from public confrontations.
195. There were many tracks all going the same way, each searching for a firmness absent from the rest.
196. A major food source of squirrels and many finches is totally absent this year.
197. In colonic neuropathies contractions were present, but their gastrocolonic response was absent and there were fewer HAPCs.
198. Evidence for that seems remarkably thin, though not entirely absent.
199. Be either late or absent and the thirty-day clock begins all over again.
200. That use of the passive in written language which allows non-attribution of agency is typically absent from conversational speech.
201. Are suspended pupils to be counted as absent or temporarily off-roll?
202. Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov, the abrasive and ambitious Speaker, whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis.
203. About 190 questionnaires were completed on the campus, with an additional 250 names and addresses of absent colleagues submitted.
204. We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen.sentencedict .com
205. And following breakdown every effort should be made to ensure supportive continuity of contact between the child and the absent parent.
206. Barras conducted a number of interviews that bear moving witness to the long shadow cast by absent fathers.
207. The charm - that demon glitter of narrowed eyes which had given the lie to all previous insults - was conspicuously absent.
208. The evidence for the next higher stage is not entirely absent but, in this case, it is indirect.
209. I've never been tardy, absent, disobedient, slothful or disrespectful.
210. Seeds subglobose or ovoid, smooth; caruncle and aril absent.
More similar words: sentiment, subsequent, subsequently, consent, sentence, at present, represent, essentially, omnipresent, for the present, presentation, representative, representation, absorb, absurd, absorbed, abstract, observe, entertainment, observer, abstinence, obsequious, observation, send, sense, senior, sender, sensor, Senate, send in.