absent-minded
adjUS /ˌæb.sn̩tˈmaɪn.dɪd/
Etymology From absent + minded.
1
Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted.
- It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.
- His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110:
- Derived terms
- absent-mindedness, absent-mindedly, absent-minded professor