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Absentminded

adjective
1.
Lost in thought; showing preoccupation.  Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty.  "An absentminded professor" , "The scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"



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"Absentminded" Quotes from Famous Books



... of conversation would eat up effects of the alcohol is absolute nonsense. It would have just as bad an effect under any conditions. Dr. Bakewell said that G.K. was his patient for nearly twenty years and during that time he never treated him for alcoholism or saw any trace of it, though in an absentminded way he was always liable to drink too much of anything if it were ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward


Words linked to "Absentminded" :   scatty, abstracted, inattentive, absent


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