absent-minded professor
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.73 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
8
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stereotypical fictional character whose focus on academic matters leads them to ignore or forget their surroundings.
Example Sentences
- "An absent-minded professor, in going out of the gateway of his college, ran against a cow. In the confusion of the moment, he raised his hat, and exclaimed: " I beg your pardon, Madam." Soon after, he stumbled against a lady in the street. In sudden recollection of his former mishap, he called out: "Is that you again, you brute?""
- "Although the absent-minded professor has appeared frequently in American humor it is safe to assert that the dire extremity of the learned man in the tragedy of A Defective Memory could hardly have been reached outside of Germany."
- "Even when the absent-minded professor comes in and says he wants a book he saw noticed a few weeks ago, he has forgotten the author's name and can't recall the title, but he is sure it is a good book because the Nation or the Saturday Review, he really can't remember which, said so, try to find out what he wants and get it for him."
- "Professor Oak, the world's leading Pokémon expert, is at once a genius and a bumbling, absent-minded professor"
- "Snapshot: Jimmy, a third-grader, is an absent-minded professor before his time. He forgets everything, from his lunch box in the morning, to his raincoat"
- "Judith: I call Jim "The Ditz" when he is the absent-minded professor."