Absent-minded synonyms
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Part of speech:
Removed or separated from something else:
Previously or already occupied
Suffering conflicting emotions; distraught.
Filled with dreams
Not attentive; heedless; negligent
No longer in the possession, care, or control of someone or something:
Not mindful or attentive; forgetful; heedless; careless
Not existing; lacking
Not taking heed; careless; unmindful
(Archaic) Lacking all memory; forgetful.
Absent-minded; inattentive
Not noticing; paying no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
Marked by or resulting from carelessness; negligent:
Of a different generation, older or younger
Distant in time, place, degree, etc.
That muses; meditative
stargazing
Distantly related by blood or marriage:
Having the qualities of a scatterbrain.
Empty of thought
Having empty spaces to be filled in
nobody home
mooning
not all there
Of or characteristic of the moon
in a brown study
in the clouds
with one's head in the clouds
Very eccentric or unconventional
Distracted, inattentive, dazed, etc.
attentive (antonym)
observant (antonym)
alert (antonym)
Unstudied or effortless:
(Idiomatic) Daydreaming; thinking about matters other than the present reality.
out-to-lunch
(Idiomatic, informal) clueless, inattentive or careless
Not observant.
aware (antonym)
Extremely troubled; mentally confused; distracted; harassed
a million miles away
ability (related)
awareness (related)
amnestic
(Medicine) That causes amnesia.
unheedful
Not paying attention
Not perceiving; devoid of perception.
Synonym Study
- Inattentive implies a failure to pay attention, emphasizing such behavior as a lack of discipline
- Distraught connotes agitation along with an inability to concentrate, specifically because of worry, grief, etc.
- Distrait suggests inability to concentrate, often emphasizing such a condition as a mood
- Preoccupied implies that the attention cannot be readily turned to something new because of its concern with a present matter
- Abstracted suggests a withdrawal of the mind from the immediate present and a serious concern with some other subject
- -MINDED51 absent-minded suggests an aimless wandering of the mind away from the immediate situation, often implying a habitual tendency of this kind the absent-minded professor
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