abstracted

So I enrolled right away for programming classes, and found them boringly abstracted.
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“Throughout shooting, Sandra was completely abstracted from all the technology,” says Cuarón.
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In a society that has exoticized and abstracted the military, MacLeish re-humanizes it.
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I saw Roscoe looking at him in an abstracted way, and, as he did not reply, I said: "Phil had many friends and no enemies."
Mrs. Falchion, Complete|Gilbert Parker

Strange to say, the pail from which the can had been abstracted stood unmoved in its accustomed place.
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail|Arthur R. Thompson
Then Caro became abstracted, wondering why George Tanqueray was coming, and to this particular show.
The Creators|May Sinclair
She was if anything more restless; unnaturally (he said) abstracted when you spoke to her; hardly aware of you at times.
The Creators|May Sinclair
"I must have that flute," repeated the grocer, in the same abstracted tone and manner.
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abstracted

/ (æbˈstræktɪd) /

adjective

lost in thought; preoccupied

taken out or separated; extracted

Derived forms of abstracted

abstractedly, adverbabstractedness, noun

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