Word Meanings - DISTRAIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

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• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• ABSENTATION
  The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• ABSENTEEISM
  The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
• MINDLESS
  1. Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking. 2. Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.
• ABSENTEE
  One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.
• ABSENTANEOUS
  Pertaining to absence.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• MINDER
  1. One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom. 2. One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. Dickens.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• THOUGHTFUL
  1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• ABSENTER
  One who absents one's self.
• ABSENT-MINDED
  Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.
• ABSENTNESS
  The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.
• ABSTRACTIVE
  Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.
• ABSENTMENT
  The state of being absent; withdrawal. Barrow.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• REMIND
  To put in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of . When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.
• EVENMINDED
  Having equanimity.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• REMINDER
  One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
• HIGH-MINDEDNESS
  The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
• EAR-MINDED
  Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
  See ZAMINDARY
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• ABLE-MINDED
  Having much intellectual power. -- A`ble-mind"ed*ness, n.
• NEW THOUGHT
  Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,