abstractedly

Examples

• All

• Buster sat at the bar and watched Al gaze abstractedly across the empty restaurant.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Rachel leaned back with a cigarette, abstractedly tipping the ash onto the wreckage of the half-eaten meal on her Wedgwood plate.

  Fiction book (1995)

• What do you think?" I abstractedly replied, "I think their deaths have nothing to do with where they lived.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "Once will be enough for most of them," I commented abstractedly.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "Haven't been able to think of one," I said abstractedly.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Bruce nods abstractedly and tucks into his sandwich.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Her head was down as she wrote furiously on a legal pad, and when I hailed her, she looked up, smiled abstractedly, and returned to her writing.

  Fiction book (2002)

• As she listened to the lecture, she abstractedly gazed out of the window.

• He was so lost in thought that he abstractedly missed the bus stop.

• While reading the book, she nodded abstractedly, not really paying attention to the conversation around her.

Synonyms

U

unconsciously

vsabstractedly

38 4.0

Without thinking or knowing you do something

is caused by focused thought rather than by lack of awareness or intention

A

absently

vsabstractedly

20 4.6

In a distracted way, as if your mind is somewhere else

results from thinking deeply about another matter rather than simple distraction

A

absentmindedly

vsabstractedly

4 6.4

In a way that shows you are not paying attention because your mind is somewhere else

is caused by focused thinking about something else not just forgetfulness

O

obliviously

vsabstractedly

1 6.5

Not noticing what happens around you

comes from thinking about something else rather than ignorance of surroundings

I

inattentively

vsabstractedly

6.5

In a way that shows no attention to what is happening

occurs because attention is on inner thoughts rather than surroundings

U

unmindfully

vsabstractedly

7.3

In a careless way without thinking

is driven by inner preoccupation rather than deliberate carelessness

Antonyms

A

attentively

9 3.0

With care and strong focus on what you see or hear

How Distracted

obliviously

1 6.5

abstractedly

1 7.7

absently

20 4.6

distractedly

4 5.1

inattentively

6.5

Surface Forms

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Etymology