absent

verbs

go away or leave

"He absented himself"

absent, remove

is derived from

is derived from

not being in a specified place

absent

is derived from

is derived from

antonym

is similar to

not present; having left

"he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"

is similar to

impossible to find

"the book is practically introuvable"

is similar to

absent without permission

"truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

is an attribute of

the state of being present; current existence

"he tested for the presence of radon"

nonexistent

"the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

absent, lacking, missing, wanting

lost in thought; showing preoccupation

"an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"

absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty