absent-minded

تعريف absent-minded في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted
It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.; lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business; Someone who is absent-minded forgets things or does not pay attention to what they are doing, often because they are thinking about something else. In his later life he became even more absent-minded. = forgetful + absent-mindedly absent-mindedly Elizabeth absent-mindedly picked a thread from his lapel. likely to forget things, especially because you are thinking about something else = forgetful; moony; scatterbrained
absent-minded professor: A person who tends to be oblivious to reality
absent-minded professor: A stereotypical fictional character whose focus on academic matters leads them to ignore or forget their surroundings
Even when the absent-minded professor comes in and says he wants a book he saw noticed a few weeks ago, he has forgotten the author's name and can't recall the title, but he is sure it is a good book because the Nation or the Saturday Review, he really can't remember which, said so, try to find out what he wants and get it for him.
absent-minded professors: plural form of absent-minded professor
absent-mindedly: Preoccupiedly; in an absent-minded manner
Absentminded: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
absent minded: scatterbrained, having a distracted mind
absent-mindedly: distractedly, in a distracted manner
absentminded: Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied
absentminded: alternative form of absent-minded
absentminded: {s} distracted, confused