abstractedadjective
uk/æbˈstræk.tɪd/us/æbˈstræk.tɪd/formalnot giving attention to what is happening around you because you are thinking about something else:
He gave her an abstracted glance, then returned to his book.
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Not paying attention
- absent
- absent-minded
- absently
- anyhow
- be having a moment idiom
- be like talking to a brick wall idiom
- blind
- faraway
- glaze
- go back to sleep! idiom
- hasty
- heedless
- not take a blind bit of notice idiom
- perfunctory
- remiss
- sideline
- slapdash
- slaphappy
- sloppy
- wander
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abstractedly
adverb uk/æbˈstræk.tɪd.li/us/æbˈstræk.tɪd.li/