ABSTRACT Synonyms

• concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations

• concerned with theories rather than their practical applications

• based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

• appealing to or using the intellect

• involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

• a person who uses the mind creatively

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

• pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics

• transcending physical matter or the laws of nature

• highly abstract and overly theoretical

• of or relating to philosophy or philosophers

• characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment

• not financially safe or secure

• not based on fact or investigation

• showing curiosity

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify

• make off with belongings of others

• being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

• (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

• a lavish dance requiring formal attire

• a gown for evening wear

• characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• logically deductive

• refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

• applying to all or most members of a category or group

• affecting the entire body

• a general officer of the highest rank

• the head of a religious order or congregation

• a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)

• not specialized or limited to one class of things

• prevailing among and common to the general public

• somewhat indefinite

• of worldwide scope or applicability

• command as a general

• not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment

• relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus

• wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as `vin rouge', `vino rosso', `rotwein', `red wine', etc.), or by general class (as `vin ordinaire', `vin de table', `vino da tavola', `tafelwein', `table wine', etc.)

• any product that can be sold without a brand name

• (of drugs) not protected by trademark

• applicable to an entire class or group

• of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas

• the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal

• constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception

• (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1

• not based on fact; existing only in the imagination

• without material form or substance

• (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value

• incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch

• assets that are saleable though not material or physical

• hard to pin down or identify

• lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen

• not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides

• make off with belongings of others