absent-minded

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ab=sent-mind=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

absent-minded, a. 

 Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

absent-minded, adj. habitually forgetful or inattentive; with one's mind on other things.

Derivative

absent-mindedly adv. absent-mindedness n.

THESAURUS

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transported, unaware, unconscious, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, withdrawn, woolgathering, wrapped in thought