absentlyEnglishOxford English Thesaurusabsently adverb Hilary absently took the glass he was holding out: distractedly, inattentively, abstractedly, unheedingly, carelessly, absent-mindedly, on automatic pilot; dreamily, with one's head in the clouds, in a world of one's own, lost in thought; blankly, vacuously. ▷antonyms attentively.absently Oxford Dictionary of English
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