abstracted
adjective
lost in thought; deeply engrossed or preoccupied.
abstractedly
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a word derived from
abstracted.
Example Sentences
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Many mourners ponder, even if only abstractedly, their reason for living.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 7, 2011
Burly, hunched Ernst Reuter still sat in his center loge, his eyes bright, abstractedly beating time with nicotine-stained forefinger to some passage of the music that had died.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half.
From Time Magazine Archive
Looking professorial in his neat blue suit, Bob Taft was talking matter-of-factly, almost abstractedly, as if he were speaking across a committee table.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was looking abstractedly toward, or over, the twin smokestacks up on the Sports Deck.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
