off-minded
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.14 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Absent-minded; distracted; being of less than sound mind; mentally despondent; touched.
Example Sentences
- "So, on a certain occasion, old Doacon Jones "drapped" in his "quarter" without uttering the conventional pleading grunt, which remiss was noted by the preacher — the Deacon being a little off-minded, as his wife, had recently died, [...]"
- "Anyway, my little tootsie-bug, you are very right about how offminded that crazy man is."
Etymology
From off- + minded.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: off
Inflected Forms
more off-minded (comparative)
most off-minded (superlative)
offminded (alternative)