Absenter

//æbˈsɛn.tɚ//

Synonyms for "absenter" (82 found)

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Closest matches (17)

absentminded away lacking absconded absent-minded absorbed abstracted awol bemused castle-building daydreaming daydreamy dead to the world deficient deleted

Adjective(2 words)

absentminded abstracted

Strong matches (24)

departed disappeared distrait dreaming dreamy drowsing ecstatic elsewhere engrossed faraway forgetful gone half-awake heedless in a reverie in the clouds incurious introuvable keep away from lost

Preposition(1 words)

in the absence of

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Verb(1 words)

Adjective(1 words)

Related words (41)

lost in thought meditative missing mooning moonraking museful musing napping no longer present nodding nonattendant nonexistent not found not present oblivious off omitted out out of sight pensive

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pipe-dreaming preoccupied rapt somewhere else stargazing subtracted taken away taken up transported truant unconscious vanished wanting withdraw from woolgathering wrapped in thought

Adjective(3 words)

missing scatty wanting

Verb(1 words)

Adjective(1 words)

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[…] if many of them that vse the meanes of saluation, shall not bee saued, where shall wilfull Recusants, obstinate absenters, and carelesse contemners of the Word, appeare?

Source: wiktionary

1966, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, Chapter 1, p. 4, It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.

Source: wiktionary

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