absentminded

1. 1.

   lost in thought; showing preoccupation

   “an absent stare”

   “an absentminded professor”

   “the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence”

   Synonymsabsentabstractedscatty

   Similarinattentive

Questions about absentminded

What does absentminded mean?

absentminded means "lost in thought; showing preoccupation".

How many syllables are in absentminded?

absentminded has 4 syllables: ab-sent-min-ded. The stress falls on "sent".

What is another word for absentminded?

Close synonyms include absent, abstracted, scatty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is absentminded a common word?

absentminded is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.