Associations to the word «Absentminded»

Wiktionary

ABSENTMINDED, adjective. Alternative form of absent-minded

Dictionary definition

ABSENTMINDED, adjective. Lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope