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副詞

absentmindedly (comparative more absentmindedly, superlative most absentmindedly)

1. Alternative form of absent-mindedly
   • 2005, Dallas Woodburn, 3 A.m.: A Collection of Short Stories, →ISBN:

     Across the aisle, she was absentmindedly fiddling with a loose piece of yarn that had unraveled from her sweater, wrapping it around her finger the same way Derek was wrapped around her finger. And she didn't even know it. Hoo-boy. She killed him.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌæb.sn̩tˈmaɪn.dɪd.li/

副詞

absent-mindedly (comparative more absent-mindedly, superlative most absent-mindedly)

1. (manner) Preoccupiedly; in an absent-minded manner. [First attested in the late 19 century.]
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantyne Books, published 1963, page 97:

     Professor Archimedes Q. Porter, his hands clasped beneath the tails of his long coat, paces back and forth under the ever-watchful eye of his faithful secretary, Mr. Samuel T. Philander. Twice within the past few minutes he has started absent-mindedly across the tracks in the direction of a near-by swamp, only to be rescued and dragged back by the tireless Mr. Philander.

   • 2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, in CNN‎:

     On the same highway, I once absent-mindedly cut in front of this enormous jacked-up pickup truck.

同意語

• absently, abstractedly

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