abstracter

/æbˈstɹkæ.tɚ/

adjective

  1. Derived; extracted.

  2. Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

  3. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.

  4. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

  5. Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.

  6. Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.

  7. Absent-minded.

  8. Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.

  9. Insufficiently factual.

  10. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

  11. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

  12. Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

Synonyms: abstruse, ascriptive, attributive, conceptual, ideal, imaginary, incorporeal, intangible, nonempirical, theoretical, conceptual, theoretical, formal, general, generalized, generic, nonspecific, representational
Antonyms: actual, concrete, corporeal, empirical, applied, practical, discrete, particular, precise, specific

noun

  1. One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents.

  2. Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.

  3. An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.

Similar Words

abs /æbz/ abscess abscesses abscise /əbˈsaɪz/ abscised abscises abscising abscissa /æbˈsɪs.ə/ abscissae /æbˈsɪsˌiː/ abscission