All absent-minded synonyms

adj absent-minded

• absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.
• absorbed — If you are absorbed in something or someone, you are very interested in them and they take up all your attention and energy.
• abstracted — Someone who is abstracted is thinking so deeply that they are not fully aware of what is happening around them.
• careless — If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
• distracted — Obsolete. distracted.
• dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
• dreamy — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
• faraway — distant; remote: faraway lands.
• forgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
• heedless — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
• inattentive — not attentive; negligent.
• lost — no longer possessed or retained: lost friends.
• oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
• preoccupied — completely engrossed in thought; absorbed.
• remote — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
• removed — remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from.
• scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
• surroundings — something that surrounds.
• unconscious — not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
• unheeding — to give careful attention to: He did not heed the warning.
• unmindful — not mindful; unaware; heedless; forgetful; careless; neglectful: unmindful of obligations.
• observant — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
• unthinking — thoughtless; heedless; inconsiderate: an unthinking, tactless person.
• withdrawn — past participle of withdraw.
• bemused — If you are bemused, you are puzzled or confused.
• distrait — inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
• moony — dreamy, listless, or silly.
• airheaded — Slang. a scatterbrained, stupid, or simple-minded person; dolt.
• inconscient — unconscious.
• mooning — the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
• out to lunch — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
• space cadet — a person who appears to be in his or her own world or out of touch with reality.
• spacey — spaced-out (def 2).
• woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.