abstract
/ˈæbstrækt/ adjDefinition
› relating to ideas and not real things: Truth and beauty are abstract concepts.
› abstract art involves shapes and colours and not images of real things or people: abstract paintings
(Definition of abstract adj from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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