Usually means: Inattentive or distracted while thinking.
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  1. absentmindedly: Merriam-Webster
  2. absentmindedly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absentmindedly: Vocabulary.com
  4. absentmindedly: Wordnik
  5. absentmindedly: Wiktionary
  6. absentmindedly: Dictionary.com
  7. Absentmindedly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. absentmindedly: Rhymezone
  9. absentmindedly: FreeDictionary.org
  10. absentmindedly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. absentmindedly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  Alternative form of absent-mindedly [(manner) Preoccupiedly; in an absent-minded manner.]

Similar:
absently, inattentively, abstractedly, distractedly, forgetfully, idly, thoughtlessly, lazily, irritatedly, innocently, more...

Opposite:
mindful, attentive, aware

Phrases:
said absentmindedly, to draw absentmindedly, more...

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Similar:
absently, inattentively, abstractedly, distractedly, forgetfully, idly, thoughtlessly, lazily, irritatedly, innocently, more...

Opposite:
mindful, attentive, aware

Phrases:
said absentmindedly, to draw absentmindedly, more...



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