"absent-minded" meaning in All languages combined

See absent-minded on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌæb.sn̩tˈmaɪn.dɪd/ [US] Forms: absent-minded [positive], more absent-minded [comparative], most absent-minded [superlative]
Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Someone who is absent-minded forgets things or does not pay attention to what they are doing, often because they are thinking about something else. Synonyms: absentminded, absent, abstracted, scatty, forgetful, distrait, moony, scatterbrained, spacey, ditzy
    Sense id: simple-absent-minded-en-adj-7pf8MKXL
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "absent-minded",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more absent-minded",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most absent-minded",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "more": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In his later life he became even more absent-minded."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is absent-minded forgets things or does not pay attention to what they are doing, often because they are thinking about something else."
      ],
      "id": "simple-absent-minded-en-adj-7pf8MKXL",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "absentminded"
        },
        {
          "word": "absent"
        },
        {
          "word": "abstracted"
        },
        {
          "word": "scatty"
        },
        {
          "word": "forgetful"
        },
        {
          "word": "distrait"
        },
        {
          "word": "moony"
        },
        {
          "word": "scatterbrained"
        },
        {
          "word": "spacey"
        },
        {
          "word": "ditzy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæb.sn̩tˈmaɪn.dɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "absent-minded"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "absent-minded",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more absent-minded",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most absent-minded",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "more": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In his later life he became even more absent-minded."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is absent-minded forgets things or does not pay attention to what they are doing, often because they are thinking about something else."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "absentminded"
        },
        {
          "word": "absent"
        },
        {
          "word": "abstracted"
        },
        {
          "word": "scatty"
        },
        {
          "word": "forgetful"
        },
        {
          "word": "distrait"
        },
        {
          "word": "moony"
        },
        {
          "word": "scatterbrained"
        },
        {
          "word": "spacey"
        },
        {
          "word": "ditzy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæb.sn̩tˈmaɪn.dɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "absent-minded"
}

Download raw JSONL data for absent-minded meaning in All languages combined (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-06 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (f889f65 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.