Definition of "absent-minded" []

• Deep in thought and heedless of present circumstances or activities; preoccupied. (adjective)

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• "Josie looked up at Paul, her expression absent-minded."
• "Even the most absent-minded can't miss the tall-masted ships in the harbor."
• ""Pockets is the damnedest things I ever see for makin 'a man absent-minded," he communed that night, as he crawled into his blankets."