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absent

/ˈabs(ə)nt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈabs(ə)nt/

absent

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

ab - sent -> absent

Myanmar meaning

(adj) မရှိသော။ အဝေး ရောက်။ ပျက်ကွက်သော။ ကင်းမဲ့သော။ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ကို သတိမမူသော။ အခြားတစ်ပါးသို့စိတ်ရောက်နေသော။ စိတ်မပါသော။ (v) ရှောင်နေ

Full entry

absent /'æbsǝnt / adj

၁။ ~ (from sth) (က) မရှိသော။ အဝေး ရောက်။ ပျက်ကွက်သော။ absent friends ❍ be absent from school/a meeting/ work. (ခ) မရှိ [သော]။ ကင်းမဲ့ [သော]။ Love was totally absent from his childhood.
၂။ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ကို သတိမမူသော။ အခြားတစ်ပါးသို့ စိတ်ရောက် နေသော။ စိတ်မပါသော။ absent expression / look.
v ~ oneself (from sth) (fml ) ရှောင်နေသည်။ He deliberately absented himself from the meeting.
❏ absently adv ငေးတိငေးမော။ stare absently.
❏ absent-minded adj မေ့တတ်[သော]။ become absent-minded with age.
❏ absent-mindedly adv အမှတ်တမဲ့။ အမှတ်မထင်။
❏ absent-mindedness n [U] မေ့လျော့တတ်ခြင်း။

More examples

How many of them are absent without permission?
[absent from] : He’s been absent from school for three days.
[absent from] : Parental affection is absent from these children’s lives.
He listened with an absent air and kept glancing at the door.

Synonyms

not present, missing, gone, out, not in attendance, AWOL, absent-minded, astray, away, away from home, bare, blank, cut and run, deficient, depart, devoid, elsewhere, empty, far away, get away, ghost, git, go away, go forth, going away, hit the bricks, hit the trail, hollow, hooky, in short supply, inattentive, lacking, make a break, march out, minus, move on, move out, moved out, no-show, nobody home, nonexistent, not at home, not in, omitted, preoccupied, removed, say goodbye, set forth, setting forth, slip away, slipping away, start out, take leave, taking leave, unavailable, vacant, vacuous, vague, vanished, wanting

Antonyms

abundant, alert, attending, complete, existing, filled, full, in, present, sufficient

Cross references

not present missing gone out not in attendance AWOL absent-minded astray away away from home bare blank cut and run deficient depart devoid elsewhere empty far away get away ghost git go away go forth going away hit the bricks hit the trail hollow

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