ABSENT-MINDED Definition & Meaning

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absent-minded

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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.
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absent-minded

adjective

preoccupied; forgetful; inattentive

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Derived Forms

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Other �y��vlog Forms

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of absent-minded¹

First recorded in 1850–55

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Synonym Study

Absent-minded, abstracted, oblivious all mean inattentive to immediate surroundings. Absent-minded suggests an unintentional wandering of the mind from the present: an absent-minded committee member. Abstracted implies that the mind has been drawn away from the immediate present by reflection upon some engrossing subject: an abstracted air. Oblivious implies absorption in some thought that causes one to be completely forgetful of or unaware of one's surroundings: oblivious of danger.

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Many women talk about having "pregnancy brain" or "baby brain", to describe feeling forgetful, absent-minded or having brain fog.

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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!,”

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I swear, I’m so absent-minded …

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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.”

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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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