absent

Adjective

• lost in thought; showing preoccupation
  • an absent stare
    
  • an absentminded professor
    
  • the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
    

• nonexistent
  • the thumb is absent
    
  • her appetite was lacking
    

• not being in a specified place

Verb

• go away or leave
  • He absented himself
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  absentminded , abstracted , scatty , lacking , missing , wanting , remove