Absent-minded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Absent-minded \Ab`sent-mind"ed\, a.
     Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. --
     {Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness}, n. -- {Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  absentminded
       adj : lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare";
             "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing
             quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
             [syn: {absent}, {abstracted}, {scatty}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "absent-minded":
     Lethean, absent, absorbed, abstracted, amnestic, bemused, blocked,
     castle-building, converted, daydreaming, daydreamy, distracted,
     distrait, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere,
     engrossed, faraway, forgetful, forgetting, half-awake, heedless,
     in a reverie, in a trance, in the clouds, inadvertent, inattentive,
     inclined to forget, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning,
     moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, off,
     pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, repressed,
     somewhere else, stargazing, suppressed, taken up, transported,
     unaware, unconscious, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing,
     unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, withdrawn, woolgathering,
     wrapped in thought