 3 definitions found
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 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 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unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, withdrawn, woolgathering,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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