Clues for the word "ABSTRACT"
We've had 37 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 53 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on December 15, 2025.
Definition of abstract
- a. - Withdraw; separate.
- a. - Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
- a. - Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
- a. - Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
- a. - Abstracted; absent in mind.
- a. - To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
- a. - To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- a. - To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
- a. - To epitomize; to abridge.
- a. - To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
- a. - To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
- v. t. - To perform the process of abstraction.
- a. - That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
- a. - A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
- a. - An abstract term.
- a. - A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
Referring Clues
- Like some art
- Like a Jackson Pollock painting
- Speech summary
- Not concrete
- Not concrete
- Like theoretical thinking
- Like theoretical thinking
- Theoretical
- Summary
- Rothko's field
- Type of art
- Take away - theoretical
- Epitome
- Summary is merely theoretical
- Style of art that's in a seaman's territory
- Take away - immaterial
- Sailor's disquisition is philosophical
- Take away - what can't be seen
- Sailor's discourse is theoretical
- Purloin anything but concrete
- Remove - what isn't tangible
- Not easy to grasp by sailors on land
- A summary might well be appropriate
- Like 54-Across that's hard to understand
- Modern art style
- Sum up sailor's art going back to the beginnings of Christian times
- Summary way to describe certain art
- Summary of a bishop's religious pamphlet
- A bishop's treatise, hard to understand
- A bishop's sermon is profound
- A bishop's booklet, conceptual
- Journal article summary
- Steal - but that's immaterial
- Summary of Jack's pamphlet
- Part of a science journal
- Existing in the mind only
- Lab report component
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - December 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 02, 2024
- New York Times - January 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 08, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 26, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 14, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 07, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 14, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 13, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 25, 2022
- Your Life Choices - July 22, 2022
- Family Time - January 07, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - July 01, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - February 27, 2017
- Mirror Daily - February 16, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2016
- Guardian Quick - June 14, 2016
- New York Times - May 12, 2016
- Mirror Daily - February 16, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 12, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 26, 2015
- Guardian Everyman - February 02, 2014
- And in 23 more crossword puzzles...