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  • 81Absent-minded professor — The absent minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction usually portrayed as an academic with important information, but whose focus on their learning leads him to ignore or forget his surroundings.The stereotype is very old; a story… …

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  • 82absent-minded — also absentminded ADJ GRADED 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. In his later life he became even more absent minded. Syn: forgetful… …

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  • 83Absent Friends (The Divine Comedy album) — Infobox Album | Name = Absent Friends Type = Album Artist = The Divine Comedy Released = March 29, 2004 Recorded = 2001 2003 at RAK, Abbey Road and Konk Studios Genre = Rock Length = 45:56 Label = Parlophone/EMI Producer = Neil Hannon Reviews =… …

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  • 84Absent in the Spring — infobox Book | name = Absent in the Spring title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket illustration of the first UK edition author = Mary Westmacott (pseudonym of Agatha Christie) illustrator = cover artist = Not known country = United… …

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  • 85absent-minded — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. abstracted, preoccupied, lost in thought, forgetful, distracted, dreamy, inattentive, lost, unmindful, absent, unheeding, heedless, oblivious, distrait, daydreaming, napping, unconscious, unaware, inadvertent, withdrawn …

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  • 86absent-mindedness — noun The characteristic or state of being easily distracted or preoccupied. I dont mean to make mistakes; its just absent mindedness. Syn: absence of mind See Also: absent minded, absent mindedly …

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  • 87absent-minded — adjective likely to forget things, especially because you are thinking about something else: She s getting very absent minded. absent mindedly adverb absent mindedness noun (U) …

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  • 88absent-minded — UK / US adjective likely to forget things or to think about something different from what you should be thinking about I m getting more absent minded as I get older. Derived words: absent mindedly adverb absent mindedness noun uncountable …

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  • 89Absent Friends (Dad's Army episode) — Infobox Dad s Army episode number episode name=032 – Absent Friends script=Jimmy Perry and David Croftcite book|title=The Complete A Z of Dad’s Army|author=Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard|date=2000|publisher=Orion|ISBN= 0 75284 637 X] …

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  • 90absent-minded — adjective absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted It took the absent minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head …

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