English Dictionary

abstract

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈæbˌstɹækt/

形容詞

廃用 古語 語頭大文字 頻度副詞 分類

(obsolete) Derived; extracted. / (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. / Insufficiently factual. / Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

日本語の意味

（時代遅れの用法）派生した、または抽出された / （現代ではまれな用法）切り離された、分離された / 事実に基づいていない、不十分に具体的な / 実践や現実から離れた、曖昧な、理論的な、または非具体的な

Early grammarians described the adjective as abstract from a verb.

初期の文法学者たちは、その形容詞が動詞から派生したものだと述べた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Derived; extracted.

意味（2）

(now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.

意味（3）

Insufficiently factual.

意味（4）

Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]

意味（5）

(grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

意味（6）

Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

The politician gave a somewhat abstract answer when asked about their plans to cut spending.

意味（7）

Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.

A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing...

意味（8）

Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.

A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. […] A practice, however, has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression abstract name to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.

意味（9）

(archaic) Absent-minded.

Abſtract as in a tranſe methought I ſaw, abstract, as in a trance

意味（10）

(art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.

But his design is wonderful. He’s getting more and more abstract every day. He’d given up the third dimension when I was there and was just thinking of giving up the second. Soon, he says, there’ll be just the blank canvas. That’s the logical conclusion. Complete abstraction.

意味（11）

(music) Absolute.

意味（12）

(dance) Lacking a story.

意味（13）

(object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

more abstract （ comparative ）

abstracter （ comparative ）

most abstract （ superlative ）

abstractest （ superlative ）