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absent-minded
[ ab-suhnt-mahyn-did ]
adjective
- so lost in thought that one does not realize what one is doing, what is happening, etc.; preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one's immediate surroundings.
Synonyms: , , , ,
Antonyms: , , ,
absent-minded
adjective
- preoccupied; forgetful; inattentive
Derived Forms
- ˌԳ-ˈԻ, adverb
- ˌԳ-ˈԻԱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- sԳ-ԻĻ· adverb
- sԳ-ԻĻ·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of absent-minded1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Many women talk about having "pregnancy brain" or "baby brain", to describe feeling forgetful, absent-minded or having brain fog.
Together, they wrote dozens of songs for Disney TV productions and movies such as “The Parent Trap,” “The Absent-Minded Professor,” “Summer Magic,” “That Darn Cat!,”
I swear, I’m so absent-minded …
The full transcript of President Joe Biden’s five-hour interview with special counsel Robert Hur’s investigators “paints a more nuanced portrait” of Biden’s memory than the special counsel’s report, according to The Washington Post, which noted that “Biden doesn’t come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be.”
The irony, here, is that for all Biden’s absent-minded slippage and age-related pronunciation difficulties, he is manifestly still in charge at the White House.
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