abstractly
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7.4
- adverb
- /æbˈstræktli/
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abstractamente
- The artist prefers to represent emotions abstractly, using colors and shapes instead of realistic forms.
- think abstractly
- ability to think abstractly
- learn to think abstractly
Slightly more abstractly, we could count operations.
- Slightly more abstractly, we could count operations.
- It's an arrangement of atoms that we abstractly described as a tank.
- How would you more abstractly define digit recognition?
- What I mean by that, like let's just, instead of speaking abstractly, I'll just be blunt.
- Thinking abstractly about numbers with letters, let's say, helps you think abstractly about all sorts of things.
- So we can imagine a dynamics of consciousness not in space and time, just abstractly.
- It could be when we think about them abstractly in accordance with their archetype, their idea, right then they don't measure up and we're not happy with them.
- I knew about the existence of Black Pill, like abstractly, but I had never actually met somebody who identified as Black pill.
- We are not just, you know, abstractly motivated.
- And so there's that generic description abstractly.
- So if it's really difficult to think long term, like abstractly, then I'm going to go back to a light, a letter, a letter writing exercise.
Examples
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Rather than discussing these questions abstractly, one can discuss them using concrete examples.
Academic text (2017) -
Global democracy can be defined abstractly, but what would it mean in practice?
Academic text (2000) -
So we say, thinking abstractly, what is this?
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So the course can be abstractly split into two parts.
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But let's just abstractly think about all these States and just draw them as points.
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Can third-grade students think abstractly through project work?
Academic text (2015) -
From the age of 8 onwards, children develop their ability to think abstractly about spatial orientation.
Academic text (1996) -
The question of the relative importance of different levels cannot be abstractly or definitively answered.
Academic text (1990) -
Finally, curriculum goals are summarized or represented abstractly as success.
Academic text (2015) -
During this stage, the child is learning to think abstractly and reason logically (Piaget, 1983).
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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7.0
In a way that uses ideas instead of physical things
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4.2
In a general way without giving specific details
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7.1
In theory or for calculation, it is not actually real
Antonyms
How Abstract
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word abstractly comes from abstract, which has parts ab- meaning 'away' and tract meaning 'pull', the same root you see in tractor. So to think abstractly is to 'pull away' from details and focus on the idea, which is why it means thinking about concepts instead of specific examples.