Absent-minded

English

Adjective

Absent-minded (comparative more Absent-minded, superlative most Absent-minded)

1. absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted

   It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.

Derived terms

• absent-mindedness
• absent-mindedly
• absent-minded professor

Thesaurus

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transported; unaware; unconscious; unheedful; unheeding; unmindful; unnoticing; unobserving; unperceiving; unseeing; withdrawn; woolgathering; wrapped in thought

Translations

absent in mind

Bosnian: rasejan (bs) Bulgarian: разсеян, потънал в мисли Finnish: hajamielinen (fi) (forgetful), poissaoleva (fi) (absent in mind) French: distrait (fr) German: zerstreut (de) Hungarian: szórakozott (hu)

Italian: svanito (it) Japanese: ぼんやり (bon'yari) Norwegian: distré (no) Spanish: distraído (es) Swedish: tankspridd (sv)