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Absentminded

adjective

Lost in thought; showing preoccupation. Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty. "An absentminded professor" , "The scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"

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... was placid, motionless, almost absentminded. In spite of his rags, in spite of the misery stamped on his countenance, it gave evidence of noble pride. His eye had a stoical expression which no magistrate ought to have misunderstood; but as soon as a man has fallen into the hands of justice, he is no more ...

— Colonel Chabert • Honore de Balzac

Words linked to "Absentminded" : inattentive, absentmindedness, abstracted