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(adj) absent, absentminded, abstracted
lost in thought; showing preoccupation
an absent stare; an absentminded professor; the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
(adj) scatterbrained, rattlebrained, rattlepated
lacking sense or discretion
his rattlebrained crackpot ideas; how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for- Glenway Westcott