unfocused
16
4.8
- adjective
- /ʌnˈfoʊkəst/
:
disperso
- And so, yeah, he just wants to kind of get some, I guess, leadership team feedback for a for an unfocused team.
- unfocused mediation
- scattered and unfocused
I was just making no progress, just thinking, yeah, just unfocused.
- I was just making no progress, just thinking, yeah, just unfocused.
- Because sometimes we're doing way too much, we're spread way too thin, and we're unfocused.
- You're able to increase your attraction to even the things you're totally unfocused on.
- And once you let your mind get unfocused, you get lost out in the woods and out there going through Delta selection.
- It means being highly focused instead of being unfocused, which another way to say that is lack of impulse control.
Examples
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, or if you feel you've lost your focus temporarily, what do you do?
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Nelsf, curled affectionately around his glass, looked up, his eyes unfocused and wandering.
Fiction book (1991) -
His eyes were a little unfocused, and he had a fixed smile on his face.
Fiction book (1998) -
I understood them, but the main character was unfocused, although I knew that he was central to the book.
Fiction book (2002) -
Jake... very creative, but unfocused.
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For a moment, she seemed between two worlds, her eyes unfocused and distant.
Fiction book (2001) -
You're acting kind of unfocused lately.
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When engaged in unfocused freewriting, a writer is putting down on paper whatever comes to mind.
Academic text (1990) -
Dressed haphazardly, hair messed up, eyes still a little unfocused, Sayer resembles more a patient than a doctor.
Fiction book (1990) -
He struggled to concentrate on his work because his thoughts were unfocused.
Synonyms
19
4.0
Not paying attention because your mind is somewhere else
4
6.0
Having no clear aim or plan
2
5.9
A person who often does not pay attention and forgets small things like keys
1
8.7
Not fully paying attention and feeling confused or dreamy
1
6.1
Not having a clear aim or plan in what you do
1
4.7
Your mind is not paying attention to what you are doing
Not paying attention to what is happening or being said
Not able to pay attention because your mind is on other things
Antonyms
How Focused
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfocused comes from un- meaning 'not' and focus, which is the 'center' of attention or the point you aim at. So an unfocused mind is not on one clear goal, like a light that spreads instead of pointing to a single spot.