- 2. Occult, recondite, subtile, refined, abstracted, vague. See abstruse.
Abstract, n. Abridgment, epitome, summary, conspectus, compend, compendium, synopsis, syllabus, outline, digest, brief, breviary, sum and substance, concise statement, gist, drift, general contents.
Abstracted, a.
- 1. Subtile, refined, abstract, abstruse.
- 2. Inattentive, preoccupied, lost, dreaming, musing, absent, absent-minded, in a revery, in a brown study.
Abstraction, n.
- 1. Separation, disconnection, disjunction, isolation, partial view, consideration without completeness,
severing from context, ignoring of relations, blindness to the proper whole.
- 2. Preoccupation, inattention, revery, musing, muse, absence, absence of mind, brown study.
- 3. Taking, abduction, seizure, appropriation, stealing, purloining, pilfering.
Abstruse, a. Recondite, remote, occult, profound, hidden, transcendental, obscure, difficult, dark, vague, indefinite, enigmatical, mysterious, mystic, mystical, high, abstract, abstracted, subtile, refined, attenuated, rarified.
Absurd, a. Unreasonable, irrational, foolish, nonsensical, ridiculous, incongruous, senseless, unwise, silly, stupid, preposterous, ill-judged, ill-advised, contrary to reason, contrary to the dictates of common sense, self-contradictory, self-annulling, nugatory, self-cancelling.
Absurdity, n.
- 1. Unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, extravagance, absurdness, nugacity, fatuity,
idiocy, drivelling.
- 2. Absurd thing, drivel, hysteron proteron. See paradox, Mare’s Nest, cart before the horse.
Absurdness, n. See absurdity.
Absurd story. Cock-and-bull story, fiddle-faddle, neither rhyme nor reason, old wives’ tale, pure drivel.
Abundance, n. Flow, flood, overflow, exuberance, luxuriance, fertility, copiousness, profusion, richness, largeness, ampleness, wealth, affluence, store, more than enough, plenty, plenteousness.
Abundant, a. Abounding, flowing, overflowing, plentiful, plenteous, copious, much, exuberant, luxuriant, replete, full, large, ample, good, liberal, bountiful, lavish, rich, teeming, thick.