1. Not being in a specified place
   "The absent student missed an important lecture"
    
2. Nonexistent
   "the thumb is absent";
   - lacking, missing, wanting
    
3. Lost in thought; showing preoccupation
   "an absent stare";
   - absentminded, abstracted, scatty [Brit, informal]

1. Stay away or leave
   "He absented himself";
   - remove

1. In absence of
   "absent the latter assumption, we get a different result";
   - without

Derived forms: absenting, absents, absented

See also: away, awol [informal], inattentive, inexistent [rare], introuvable, nonexistent, presence, truant, unattentive [rare]

Type of: disappear, go away, vanish

Antonym: present

Encyclopedia: Absent