Verb

• S: (v) abstract (consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically)
• S: (v) pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift (make off with belongings of others)
• S: (v) abstract (consider apart from a particular case or instance) "Let's abstract away from this particular example"
• S: (v) abstract (give an abstract (of))

Adjective

• S: (adj) absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty (lost in thought; showing preoccupation) "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"