Abstracted (Adjective)
Meaning
Lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The professor's abstracted expression made it difficult for his students to discern whether he was listening to their questions.
- As she stared out the window, her abstracted gaze seemed to be light-years away from the conversation around her.
- The artist's abstracted nature made her seem detached from the world, as if she was constantly seeing things that others couldn't.
- His eyes had an abstracted quality, as if his mind was a thousand miles away, even when he was staring directly at you.
- The abstracted look on her face made it clear that her mind was elsewhere, lost in the daydreams that often seemed more real to her than reality itself.