1. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
2. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed.
3. not applied or practical; theoretical: abstract science.
4. difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculations.
5. Fine Arts.
• of or relating to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc., especially with reference to their relationship to one another.
• pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century.

6. a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome.
7. something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
8. an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object.
9. an abstract work of art.

10. to make an abstract of; summarize.
11. to draw or take away; remove.
12. to divert or draw away the attention of.
13. to steal.
14. to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances: to abstract the notions of time, space, and matter.

15. to omit from consideration.
16. without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory: beauty in the abstract.

1. having no reference to material objects or specific examples; not concrete
2. not applied or practical; theoretical
3. hard to understand; recondite; abstruse
4. denoting art characterized by geometric, formalized, or otherwise nonrepresentational qualities
5. defined in terms of its formal properties
6. (of an idea) functioning for some empiricists as the meaning of a general term

7. a condensed version of a piece of writing, speech, etc; summary
8. an abstract term or idea
9. an abstract painting, sculpture, etc
10. without reference to specific circumstances or practical experience

11. to think of (a quality or concept) generally without reference to a specific example; regard theoretically
12. to form (a general idea) by abstraction
13. to summarize or epitomize
14. to remove or extract
15. to steal

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