[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

absent-minded \ab`sent-mind"ed\, a.
   absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. --
   ab`sent-mind"edness, n. -- ab`sent-mind"edly, adv.
   1913 webster
see also:
ab`sent-mind"edness ab`sent-mind"edly 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

absentminded
     adj : lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare";
           "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing
           quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
           syn: absent, abstracted, scatty
see also:
absent abstracted scatty 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

63 moby thesaurus words for "absent-minded":
   lethean, absent, absorbed, abstracted, amnestic, bemused, blocked,
   castle-building, converted, daydreaming, daydreamy, distracted,
   distrait, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere,
   engrossed, faraway, forgetful, forgetting, half-awake, heedless,
   in a reverie, in a trance, in the clouds, inadvertent, inattentive,
   inclined to forget, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning,
   moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, off,
   pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, repressed,
   somewhere else, stargazing, suppressed, taken up, transported,
   unaware, unconscious, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing,
   unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, withdrawn, woolgathering,
   wrapped in thought

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