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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: absentminded

English

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Alternative forms

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• absentminded

Etymology

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From absent +‎ minded.

Pronunciation

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• (US) IPA(key): /ˌæb.sn̩tˈmaɪn.dɪd/

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Adjective

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absent-minded (comparative more absent-minded, superlative most absent-minded) (possessional)

1. Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1] Coordinate terms: mindless, unmindful It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.
   • 1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110:His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."

Derived terms

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• absent-mindedness
• absent-mindedly
• absent-minded professor

Translations

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Acehnese: tahe Belarusian: рассе́яны (rassjéjany) Bulgarian: разсе́ян (bg) (razséjan), заве́ян (bg) (zavéjan) Catalan: distret (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 鬆散 / 松散 (sung1 saan2) Mandarin: 心不在焉 (zh) (xīnbùzàiyān), 鬆散 / 松散 (zh) (sōngsǎn) Czech: roztržitý (cs) Danish: åndsfraværende, distræt Dutch: verstrooid (nl), afwezig (nl), elders met zijn gedachten, er niet bij Finnish: hajamielinen (fi) (forgetful), poissaoleva (fi) (absent in mind) French: distrait (fr) Galician: distraído, pampo (gl), apirolado (vulgar) German: zerstreut (de), geistesabwesend (de), schusselig (de) Hebrew: מפוזר m (mefuzár) Hungarian: szórakozott (hu) Irish: dearmadach Italian: svanito (it) Japanese: ぼんやり (ja) (bon'yari), 上の空の (ja) (うわのそらの, uwa-no sora-no) Macedonian: расеан (rasean) Maori: hinengaro makere, wareware, pakihaha Norwegian: Bokmål: distré (no), åndsfraværende Nynorsk: distré, åndsfråverande Ottoman Turkish: طالغین (dalgın) Polish: roztargniony (pl) Portuguese: distraído (pt), desatento (pt), avoado (pt) Romanian: absent (ro), distrat (ro) Russian: рассе́янный (ru) (rasséjannyj) Serbo-Croatian: rasejan, расејан, rasijan (sh) Spanish: distraído (es), despistado (es), desatento (es) Swedish: tankspridd (sv), disträ (sv) Tagalog: tagulimot Turkish: unutkan (tr) (forgetful), dalgın (tr) (absent in mind)

References

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1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absent-minded”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

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