Absent-minded

Adjective

 * 1) 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.

Derived terms

 * absent-mindedness
 * absent-mindedly
 * absent-minded professor

Thesaurus
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transported; unaware; unconscious; unheedful; unheeding; unmindful; unnoticing; unobserving; unperceiving; unseeing; withdrawn; woolgathering; wrapped in thought

Translations

 * Bosnian: rasejan
 * Bulgarian: разсеян, потънал в мисли
 * Finnish: (forgetful),  (absent in mind)
 * French:
 * German: zerstreut
 * Hungarian: szórakozott


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ぼんやり (bon'yari)
 * Norwegian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tankspridd