Antonyms for absent minded
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : ab-suhnt-mahyn-did |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæb səntˈmaɪn dɪd |
- accurate
- alert
- attentive
- aware
- bored
- careful
- caring
- cautious
- concerned
- disenchanted
- disenthralled
- disinterested
- existing
- guarded
- indifferent
- kind
- mindful
- observant
- painstaking
- prudent
- ready
- recalling
- remembering
- repulsed
- responsible
- retentive
- scrupulous
- sorrowful
- thoughtful
- troubled
- turned off
- unhappy
- uninterested
- unoccupied
Definition of absent minded
- As in absent-minded : adj out to lunch
- As in abstracted : adj preoccupied
- As in preoccupied : adj busy; mentally caught up in something
- As in rapt : adj absorbed, fascinated
- As in dreaming : adj musing
- As in careless : adj without sufficient attention
- As in forgetful : adj tending to not remember
- I was at the moment so absent minded that I did not grasp what she was after—but she repeated "afe!"
- Extract from : « Lola » by Henny Kindermann
- Didn't he have manners enough to respect a girl who was just absent minded?
- Extract from : « Jane Allen: Center » by Edith Bancroft
- But Mamma Wibblewobble was absent minded, so we must excuse her.
- Extract from : « Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble » by Howard R. Garis
- Mrs. Morris sat on the hall chair, patting me as I rubbed against her, in rather an absent minded way.
- Extract from : « Beautiful Joe » by Marshall Saunders
- I try to forget that red thatch of mine most of the time; but this was no place to practice bein' absent minded.
- Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
- The good old doctor was the most absent minded man in the world, and the least useful in a practical way in any emergency.
- Extract from : « Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures » by Alice Emerson
- One is often absent minded over troubles that can't be explained even to one's best friends.
- Extract from : « The Vision of Elijah Berl » by Frank Lewis Nason
- Edward Arundel, as absent–minded as his cousin, stooped involuntarily to pick up the papers.
- Extract from : « John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes I-III » by Mary E. Braddon
Synonyms for absent minded
- absent
- absent-minded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- amnemonic
- amnesic
- asleep
- asleep on the job
- beguiled
- bemused
- bewitched
- blissful
- bugged
- busy
- captivated
- careless
- carried away
- casual
- caught up in
- charmed
- cursory
- daydreaming
- deep
- delighted
- disregardful
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- ecstatic
- employed
- enamored
- engaged
- engrossed
- enraptured
- enthralled
- entranced
- faraway
- fascinated
- forgetful
- goofing off
- gripped
- happy
- hasty
- have on the brain
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- held
- hung up
- hypnotized
- immersed
- improvident
- imprudent
- inaccurate
- inadvertent
- inattentive
- incautious
- inconscient
- inconsiderate
- indifferent
- indiscreet
- indolent
- injudicious
- intent
- involved
- irresponsible
- lackadaisical
- lax
- like an absent-minded professor
- looking out window
- loose
- lost
- lost in thought
- mindless
- mooning
- moony
- napping
- neglectful
- negligent
- nirvanic
- nonchalant
- not on the job
- oblivious
- obsessed
- occupied
- offhand
- out in space
- out of it
- out to lunch
- overwhelmed
- perfunctory
- pipe dreaming
- pococurante
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rapturous
- ravished
- reckless
- regardless
- remiss
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- slack
- slipshod
- sloppy
- space cadet
- spacey
- spellbound
- spread out
- surroundings
- taken
- taken up
- thoughtless
- transported
- unaware
- unaware of events
- uncircumspect
- unconcerned
- unconscious
- unguarded
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unreflective
- unthinking
- unwitting
- wasteful
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
- wrapped
- wrapped up
- wrapped-up
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