Synonyms:
absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty
Meaning: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
Usage examples
She fell into abstracted reverie
"We have to wait until dusk anyway," he said, his voice abstracted, "and by the look of the light that won't be long."
But the phantasm itself is not a form of the possible intellect; it is the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasm that is a form.
But besides his frequent absences, there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an abstracted, and even of a brooding nature.
But if the species be abstracted from the conditions of individual matter, there will be a likeness of the nature without those things which make it distinct and multiplied; thus there will be knowledge of the universal.
If, therefore, my intellect is distinct from yours, what is understood by me must be distinct from what is understood by you; and consequently it will be reckoned as something individual, and be only potentially something understood; so that the common intention will have to be abstracted from both; since from things diverse something intelligible common to them may be abstracted.