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Meanings of absent-minded in English

Inattentive to what is passing.

        Usage of absent-minded in English
        1
        Reverting to the desk, the manager appeared dazed and absent-minded as usual.
        Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel
        2
        Harriwell called himself an absent-minded idiot and rushed for the gin bottle.
        South Sea Tales
        3
        Not that in the earlier stage he had seemed at all absent-minded.
        Odd John
        4
        They lunched together, the elder eager and confidential, the other respectful and-absent-minded.
        Graustark
        5
        He was wondering why he had ever considered the Head Master absent-minded.
        Chatterbox, 1906
        6
        It was an excellent gun for a clumsy and often absent-minded boy.
        Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
        7
        Then I have to smile when I realize how absent-minded I was.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        8
        I never saw a man look so haggard and worn and absent-minded.
        Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories
        9
        He bade them an absent-minded farewell and went out into the corridor.
        Silence of the grave
        10
        He talked to us only a few minutes and he seemed absent-minded.
        The Miller Of Old Church
        11
        When the chief sat down, a very quiet, absent-minded old gentleman arose.
        In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories
        12
        Kennicott had seemed nervous and absent-minded through that supper-hour, two evenings after.
        Main Street
        13
        He is very absent-minded nowadays, and does not attend to his work.
        A Little Girl in Old Quebec
        14
        She said nothing, wondering what had happened to render him so absent-minded.
        The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
        15
        Hayoue smiled good-naturedly, but looked rather indifferent or absent-minded as he replied,-
        The Delight Makers
        16
        What had become of the imperious absent-minded young woman of ordinary days?
        Delia Blanchflower
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        Absent-minded through the time
        Absent-minded across language varieties
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