Usually means: Prone to forgetting or distracted.
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  1. absent-minded: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. absent-minded, absent-minded: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Absent-minded, absent-minded: Wordnik
  4. absent-minded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. absent-minded: Wiktionary
  6. absent-minded: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. absent-minded: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. absent-minded: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Absent-minded, absent-minded: Dictionary.com
  10. absent-minded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Absent-minded: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Absent-minded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. absent-minded: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. absent-minded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. absent-minded: FreeDictionary.org
  16. absent-minded: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. absent-minded: Merriam-Webster

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▸ adjective:  Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted.

Similar:
absentminded, absent, abstracted, off-minded, uncollected, distrait, unmindful, inattentive, remindless, oblivious, more...

Opposite:
mindful, attentive, observant

Types:
forgetful, scatterbrained, distracted, preoccupied, spacey, absentminded, more...

Phrases:
absent-minded professor, The Absent-Minded Professor, more...

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Similar:
absentminded, absent, abstracted, off-minded, uncollected, distrait, unmindful, inattentive, remindless, oblivious, more...

Opposite:
mindful, attentive, observant

Types:
forgetful, scatterbrained, distracted, preoccupied, spacey, absentminded, more...

Phrases:
absent-minded professor, The Absent-Minded Professor, more...



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