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語源

From absent +‎ minded.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌæb.sn̩tˈmaɪn.dɪd/

形容詞

absent-minded (comparative more absent-minded, superlative most absent-minded) (possessional)

1. Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted. [First attested in the mid 19 century.]

   Coordinate terms: mindless, unmindful

   It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.

   • 1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110:

     His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:absent-minded.

派生語

• absent-mindedness
• absent-mindedly
• absent-minded professor

参照

参照

• Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 6