absent-minded
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.
absentminded
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a variation of
absent-minded.
Example Sentences
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Cheese crackers, deeply toasty and meant for absentminded snacking.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025
How nervy — or maybe just absentminded — to rep the Chiefs in this Philadelphia suburb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Black voters outside the South, however, will remind an absentminded nation that black voters in no one state speak for the group as a whole.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2020
Thanks to his absentminded dash, Fahlberg invented artificial sweetener.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2019
Comparisons have also been drawn between McCandless and Carl McCunn, an affable absentminded Texan who moved to Fairbanks during the 1970s oil boom and found lucrative employment on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction project.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
