absent-minded
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absent-minded (comparative more absent-minded, superlative most absent-minded)
- Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
- It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.
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absent in mind
References [edit]
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 9:
