absent-minded
See also: absentminded
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editabsent-minded (comparative more absent-minded, superlative most absent-minded) (possessional)
- Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
- Coordinate terms: mindless, unmindful
- It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.
- 1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110:
- His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."
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edit- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absent-minded”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
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