absent
not being in a specified place
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,775 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,986 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- not being in a specified place
- nonexistent also: lacking, missing, wanting the thumb is absenther appetite was lacking
- lost in thought; showing preoccupation also: absentminded, abstracted, scatty an absent starean absentminded professor
verb
- go away or leave also: remove He absented himself
absent in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Oh how I fear lest absent Jove should love her!
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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Nor were incident and variety entirely absent from this tranquil experience.
A Phyllis of the Sierras · Bret Harte · Chapter 2
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The absent are always in danger; and few women are proof against ambition.
Windsor Castle · William Harrison Ainsworth · Chapter 2
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If absent a week on a trip, they can make arrangements to have their board run on just the same.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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As I feared that Giton might run greater risk if I were absent, I got up to take part in the ceremony.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction · 20-66 Petronius Arbiter · Chapter 1