absentmindedly

Adverb

Meaning

in an absentminded or preoccupied manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

abstractedly absently inattentively awol absence absent vaguely distantly carelessly absentee negligently lazily dreamily distractedly vacantly
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Antonyms

fortunately newly thoroughly quietly lightly logically
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Phrases with the word

absentmindedly bypassing

Examples

he read the letter absently Source: Internet

After conducting his business, the customer absentmindedly pockets the pen and walks off. Source: Internet

As she's helping the garden boy, Tom, dispose of the king's old belongings she finds a bag of plain gray stones which she absentmindedly pockets. Source: Internet

The " Alabama Song ", for example, can be picked up absentmindedly and hummed. Source: Internet

Challenged, Miss Prism explains that she had absentmindedly put the manuscript of a novel she was writing in the perambulator, and the baby in a handbag, which she had left at Victoria Station. Source: Internet

"Out in Jersey, I started buying old frames at flea markets, which inspired me to make my own with routered pine panels, almost absentmindedly, until it became a mania with me." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

absentment absentminded absentminded person absentmindedly bypassing absentmindedness absentness