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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taken out |
| Synonyms: | detached, dislodged, ejected, eliminated, evacuated, excised, expunged, extirpate, extracted, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | established, ignored, left |
| Main Entry: | removed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dismissed |
| Synonyms: | discharged, ousted, retired |
| Main Entry: | removed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | faraway |
| Synonyms: | afar, alone, aloof, apart, away, detached, distant, isolated, obscure, remote, separate, took, withdrawn |
| Main Entry: | remove |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift or move object; take off, away |
| Synonyms: | abolish, abstract, amputate, carry away, carry off, cart off, clear away, cut out, delete, depose, detach, dethrone, dig out, discard, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, displace, disturb, do away with, doff, efface, eject, eliminate, erase, evacuate, expel, expunge, extract, get rid of, junk*, oust, pull out, purge, raise, relegate, rip out, separate, shed, ship, skim, strike out, take down, take out, tear out, throw out, transfer, transport, unload, unseat, uproot, wipe out, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | fix, place, remain, stay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | remove |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do away with; kill |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, blot out, clear away, dispose of, do in, drag, drag down, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exclude, execute, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, get rid of, liquidate, murder, obliterate, purge, scratch, sterilize, take down, take out, waste*, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | give birth, plant, sow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, astray, away, elsewhere, ghost, gone, hooky, missing, no-show, nobody home, removed, vanished |
| Antonyms: | attending, existing, present |
| Main Entry: | absent-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out to lunch |
| Synonyms: | absent, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, careless, daydreaming, distracted, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, goofing off, head in the clouds, heedless, inattentive, inconscient, lost, mooning, moony, oblivious, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, space cadet, spacey, spacey, surroundings, unaware of events, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | alert, attentive, aware |
| Main Entry: | detached |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected |
| Synonyms: | alone, apart, discrete, disjoined, divided, emancipated, free, isolate, isolated, loose, loosened, removed, separate, severed, unaccompanied, unconnected |
| Antonyms: | attached, combined, connected, coupled, linked, merged, united |
| Main Entry: | detached |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aloof, disinterested; neutral |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apathetic, casual, cool*, dispassionate, distant, impartial, impersonal, incurious, indifferent, laid-back*, objective, out of it, poker-faced, remote, removed, reserved, spaced-out, spacey, staid, stolid, unbiased, uncommitted, unconcerned, uncurious, uninvolved, unpassioned, unprejudiced, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | biased, compassionate, engaged, interested, sympathetic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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