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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Absent-minded \Ab'sent-mind"ed\, adjective Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- {Ab'sent-mind"ed*ness}, noun -- {Ab'sent-mind"ed*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
absentminded
adjective: 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transported, unaware, unconscious, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, withdrawn, woolgathering, wrapped in thought
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