absentminded adj : lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absent, abstracted, scatty]

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Adjective

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transported, unaware, unconscious, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, withdrawn, woolgathering, wrapped in thought