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- pronunciation:
- aeb
straekt
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 b
straekt
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
existing without physical shape or substance.
Computers and cars are concrete things, but truth and beauty are abstract things.- antonyms:
- concrete
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| definition 2: |
formed in the mind or in thought, with little connection to what actually exists or is proven.
His theory is completely abstract.She loves to talk about abstract ideas.- antonyms:
- practical
- similar words:
- intellectual
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| definition 3: |
hard to understand because not based on one's experience of the world.
The study of cell biology is too abstract for most students in third grade.- antonyms:
- clear, simple
- similar words:
- difficult, intellectual, obscure
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| derivations: |
abstractly (adv.), abstractness (n.) |
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