absentminded English

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absentminded Adjective

— Someone who is absentminded forgets things or does not pay attention to what they are doing, often because they are thinking about something else. In his later life he became even more absentminded.

absentminded

— adjective (= absent, scatty) lost in thought; showing preoccupation an absent stare an absentminded professor the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence

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scatty

absent

unmindful

forgetful

abstracted

vacant

unconscious

thoughtless

obsessed

negligent

mindless

listless

intent

inconsiderate

inattentive

haunted

distrait

careless

blank

bemused

absorbed

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