absentminded
- s lost in thought; showing preoccupation
an absentminded professor
- The baby: The report says an absentminded guard at an unidentified federal building sent a baby through an X-ray machine while the baby's mother was pulling out her identification.
- They, plus their adopted son Russell, plus Uncle Fletcher, an absentminded, somewhat deaf, minutely anecdotal citizen, are the chief characters in the show.
- Daydreaming may seem absentminded and pointless, but it actually demands a lot of the brain's processing power.