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off-minded

off-minded adjective: absent-minded; distracted; being of less than sound mind; mentally despondent; touched.

Adjective

off-minded (comparative more off-minded, superlative most off-minded)

  1. Absent-minded; distracted; being of less than sound mind; mentally despondent; touched.
    • 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, [...]1892, Southern practitioner
  2. Mentally unstable or insane; crazy.
    • Anyway, my little tootsie-bug, you are very right about how offminded that crazy man is.2011, Michael A. Heck, Angel Above Water

Forms of off-minded

comparativemore off-minded
superlativemost off-minded
alternative formoffminded

Origin of off-minded

From off- + minded.

Questions about off-minded

What does off-minded mean?
Off-minded means absent-minded; distracted; being of less than sound mind; mentally despondent; touched.
What part of speech is off-minded?
Off-minded is an adjective.

Words near off-minded in the dictionary

  1. off-message
  2. off-metal
  3. off-metals
  4. off-mic
  5. off-mike
  6. off-minded
  7. off-model
  8. off-note
  9. off-notes
  10. off-off-Broadway
  11. off-off-Broadways

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