0 not noticing what is going on around one because one is thinking deeply; forgetful -- pelupa
He is very absent-minded and is always forgetting where he has put things.
Even the most absent-minded of us usually retain knowledge of which are our left and right hands.
A third group comprises the well-meaning but absent-minded.
We need only to take a little trouble to stop the absent-minded destruction of our national heritage.
The law already provides the basis for distinguished between the shoplifter and the absent-minded shopper, in so far as this is humanly possible.
If those who are caught allegedly thieving from shops can prove that they were simply absent-minded or confused, the case will fall.
We cannot dismiss illegal child employment as simply a paperwork error by absent-minded employers.
That is a specific, and probably rather absent-minded example, of age-based rationing.
The auditors were, to say the least, absent-minded.
