Synonym: difficult, remove, take away. Similar words: distract, attract, contract, contractor, attraction, attractive, abstinence, obstreperous. Meaning: ['æbstrækt] n. 1. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance 2. a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory. v. 1. consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically 2. make off with belongings of others 3. consider apart from a particular case or instance 4. give an abstract (of). adj. 1. existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment 2. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature 3. dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention.
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31. Human beings are the only creatures capable of abstract thought .
32. In the exhibition, abstract paintings are juxtaposed with shocking photographs.
33. His comments are just abstract theory and show little understanding of the realities of the situation.
34. The test has scores for verbal skills, mathematical skills, and abstract reasoning skills.
35. Deanne Sokolin creates abstract, mournfully poetic black-and-white images of wrapped objects.
36. This debate is becoming too abstract - let's have some hard facts!
37. Money was a commodity she never thought about except in the abstract.
38. His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.
39. There is only an abstract quantum physical description.
40. A lot of people don't like abstract art.
41. How about this for an abstract idea!
42. But, of course, they must never remain purely abstract.
43. To be understood, avoid abstract terms.
44. Several large abstract paintings shout at her.
45. The observer has an insatiable desire for abstract knowledge.
46. Some say language, others abstract thought, and so on.
47. At an abstract level, these arguments are probably true.
48. A vast, impersonal, abstract pattern stands be-hind this legend.
49. Many people find it difficult to understand abstract art.
50. The cult of abstract expressionism ricocheted around the world.
51. Decibel is the personification of an abstract quality.
52. Mathematics Mathematics is concerned essentially with understanding abstract concepts.
53. But she had no more time for abstract thoughts.
54. There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso
55. Shortly afterward, I was struck by the cutouts of Stan Venderbeek, an abstract filmmaker.
56. Their ideological development should be viewed as much in terms of this harmonization as in terms of the abstract thought of isolated intellectuals.
57. Since the theory is more general it is also more complicated and, in its advanced forms, more abstract.
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58. Industrious Buddhist monks laid out gardens everywhere full of abstract patterns that preceded Picasso by centuries.
59. The fourth dimension also played a part in uniting a number of abstract painters and sculptors in the inter-war period.
60. The regime is abstract in concept, political in intent and largely insensitive to practical consequences in a highly practical industry.
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