in a way that is based on general ideas and not any particular real person, thing or situation 抽象的(与个别情况相对);纯理论的 Young children may not have the ability to think abstractly. 小孩子可能没有抽象思维的能力。
(in art )艺术 not representing people or things in a realistic way, but expressing the artist's ideas about them 抽象(派)的 She began to paint abstractly again. 她又开始抽象地画画了。