The phrase "absent mind" is not correct in English; it should be "absent-minded." You can use it to describe someone who is forgetful or distracted, often due to being preoccupied with other thoughts.
Example: "She was so absent-minded that she forgot her keys at home again."
Alternatives: "forgetful" or "distracted."
Could the answer to "Sign of an absent mind" really be "E" STARE?
As month followed month with no dramatic incident I realized that one grimy key in its case gave me control over my absent mind.
The author thanks the reviewers and Ken Schoolland for providing many valuable suggestions; the author's daughter, Anna Yoder Higashi, for being a constant sounding board and font of ideas; and the author's wife, Sheila, for her support and extraordinary tolerance of his absent mind throughout the research and writing on this topic.
Can't understand how she could be so absent minded.
In his splendid new book Absent Minds, the intellectual historian Stefan Collini charts the long history of this British tradition of denial.
That I become so absent minded that I fail to realise that I've become comfortable, risk-averse and everything I make turns to shit.
In his book Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (Oxford, 2006), Collini goes to the other extreme, arguing that a public intellectual is someone who first achieves a level of creative or scholarly achievement and then uses available media to engage with the broader concerns of wider publics.
You are so ignorant and absent minded it beggars belief.
For one thing I might be absent minded and thinking about philosophy.
Cooper observes, "In truth, it seems that Napoleon never gave more than absent minded thoughts to the obviously complicated problem presented by that too distant island" (SFHR, 111).
I have never really believed all those urban myths about absent minded professors turning up each week to lecture to an audience of one, and apparently failing to notice when the audience reduced to none, and lecturing on regardless.
