absent-minded
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See also: absentminded
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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
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References[edit]
- ^ “absent-minded” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, page 9.
