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absent-minded
adjective as in out to lunch
Weak matches
- absent
 - absorbed
 - abstracted
 - airheaded
 - bemused
 - careless
 - distracted
 - distrait
 - dreaming
 - dreamy
 - engrossed
 - faraway
 - forgetful
 - goofing off
 - head in the clouds
 - heedless
 - inattentive
 - inconscient
 - lost
 - mooning
 - moony
 - oblivious
 - out to lunch
 - pipe dreaming
 - preoccupied
 - remote
 - removed
 - scatterbrained
 - space cadet
 - spacey
 - unaware of events
 - unconscious
 - unheeding
 - unmindful
 - unobservant
 - unthinking
 - withdrawn
 - woolgathering
 
Example Sentences
Many women talk about having "pregnancy brain" or "baby brain", to describe feeling forgetful, absent-minded or having brain fog.
Together, they wrote dozens of songs for Disney TV productions and movies such as “The Parent Trap,” “The Absent-Minded Professor,” “Summer Magic,” “That Darn Cat!,”
I swear, I’m so absent-minded …
The full transcript of President Joe Biden’s five-hour interview with special counsel Robert Hur’s investigators “paints a more nuanced portrait” of Biden’s memory than the special counsel’s report, according to The Washington Post, which noted that “Biden doesn’t come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be.”
The irony, here, is that for all Biden’s absent-minded slippage and age-related pronunciation difficulties, he is manifestly still in charge at the White House.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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