Preoccupied and forgetful

Usage examples of absentminded.

Unlike most Brown sisters, often absentminded beyond their books and studies, Janya Sedai was quite neat, every short dark hair tidy around the ageless face that marked Aes Sedai who had worked long with the Power.

Sick at heart, absentminded, and feeling the effects of a sleepless night, I was well-nigh mad with love, jealousy, and despair.

With absentminded conscientiousness Bran rinsed out the teapot and left it neatly inverted on the draining-board.

Ilbryn Starym dropped the man a mirthless and absentminded smile and rode on toward the Stars and Sword.

Those callers who out of unconscious habit succumbed to fuguelike doodling or pants-crease-adjustment now came off looking rude, absentminded, or childishly self-absorbed.

I suggest that your high and mighty absentminded Majesty retire to the palace for a nap," proposed Bamboula, sensibly enough.

She looked in the nearest rack, in an absentminded way, and handed Sophie a cream cake out of it.

The there's a hired girl, the baby, the always absentminded and absent Mr.

When ingested by a gentleman, even of stately years, it lends a surge to the flagging zest and invigorates that person who, for whatever reason, finds himself growing, let us say, absentminded.