Scrabble?! ABSTRACT

Definitions of ABSTRACT in various dictionaries:

noun - a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

noun - a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

verb - consider a concept without thinking of a specific example

verb - make off with belongings of others

verb - consider apart from a particular case or instance

verb - give an abstract (of)

adj - existing only in the mind

adj - not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature

adj - dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention

Considered apart from concrete existence: an abstract concept.

Difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract philosophical problems.

Thought of or stated without reference to a specific instance: abstract words like truth and justice.

Impersonal, as in attitude or views.

Having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation: abstract painting and sculpture.

A statement summarizing the important points of a text.

Something abstract.

To take away; remove.

To remove without permission; filch.

To consider (a quality, for example) without reference to a particular example or object.

To create artistic abstractions of (something else, such as a concrete object or another style): “The Bauhaus Functionalists were... busy unornamenting and abstracting modern architecture, painting and design” (John Barth).

adj - difficult to understand

verb - to take away