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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs abstract and abstractify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

abstract
  1. (obsolete) Derived; extracted. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 15th century.]
  2. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  3. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  4. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  5. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  6. (archaic) Absent-minded. [First attested in the early 16th century.]
  7. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
    1. (capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20th century. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
    2. (music) Absolute.
    3. (dance) Lacking a story.
  8. Insufficiently factual.
  9. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
  10. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
  11. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
  12. Synonyms:
      13. theoretical, conceptual, academic, intellectual, notional, philosophical, speculative, hypothetical, conjectural, metaphysical, ideational, theoretic, unrealistic, conjectured, putative, recondite, suppositional, impractical, nonconcrete, suppositious, suppositive, unpractical, immaterial, intangible, transcendent, transcendental, unreal, ideal, assumed, analytical, unsubstantiated, ideological, imaginary, imaginative, presumed, logical, tentative, idealized, unproved, general, idealised, in theory, esoteric, unproven, untested, rational, supernatural, vague, formularized, pure … more
  13. Examples:
      14. “Wilber has failed to attract a mainstream audience because his writing is so often abstract in nature.”
      “The wholly abstract fact is prior to, and simpler than, the propositions of which it is the logical form.”
      “Both legs and abstract shapes contribute to an almost painterly overall compositional effect.”
abstracted
  1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
  2. (now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
  3. (now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
  4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
  5. Synonyms:
      6. inattentive, absent, distracted, dreamy, daydreaming, vague, faraway, oblivious, distrait, musing, heedless, bemused, engrossed, unaware, pensive, distant, absentminded, woolgathering, rapt, brooding, remote, withdrawn, absent-minded, wool-gathering, lost in thought, miles away, in a brown study, somewhere else, far away, not there, not with us, wrapped up, out to lunch, deep in thought, immersed in thought, out in space, preoccupied, absorbed, unmindful, unheeding, dreaming, forgetful, lost, scatterbrained, removed, careless, neglectful, unobservant, unthinking, ditzy … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Though pleasantly matey, he has the fatigued, abstracted air of someone who has been summarising his CV in dressing rooms for three decades.”
      “He watched the play with an abstracted mind, trying to give himself gaiety by drinking whiskey in each interval.”
abstractive
  1. Having an abstracting nature or tendency; tending to separate; tending to be withdrawn. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
  2. Derived by abstraction; belonging to abstraction. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
  3. Examples:
      4. “The book contains an intellectualist, static, determinist, abstractive trend.”
      “According to my own theory it only differentiates itself from time at a somewhat developed stage of the abstractive process.”
      “There are classes of these abstractive elements which are of great importance.”
abstractionistic
  1. (art) abstract
  2. Of or pertaining to abstractionism or abstractionists
abstractable
  1. Able to be abstracted; able to be made abstract. [First attested in the late 19th century.]
abstractional
  1. Pertaining to abstraction. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
abstractionist
  1. Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.
abstractest
  1. (rare) superlative form of abstract: most abstract
abstracting
  1. present participle of abstract
  2. Synonyms:
      3. extracting, drawing, removing, withdrawing, isolating, separating, detaching, dissociating, pulling, pumping, sucking, tapping, uncoupling, drawing off, pulling out, taking away, taking out, plucking out, summarising, summarizing, condensing, synopsizing, abbreviating, abridging, digesting, epitomising, epitomizing, outlining, shortening, briefing, compressing, encapsulating, recapping, reprising, recapitulating, summing up, boiling down, wrapping up, cutting down, writing a summary of, conceptualising, conceptualizing, hypothesising, hypothesizing, theorising, theorizing, intellectualising, intellectualizing, distracting, diverting … more
abstractified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of abstractify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dephysicalized, dematerialized, dissolved, evaporated, vanished
abstractifying
  1. present participle of abstractify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dephysicalizing, dematerializing, dissolving, evaporating, vanishing
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