Abstracted 🆚 Absent-minded 🆚 Distracted
🔹Professor Boffin is generally very absent-minded. (Not *abstracted* *distracted*)
🔹Sorry,I didn't hear what you said. I was abstracted for a moment.
🔹Sorry,I didn't hear what you said. I was distracted by the telephone.
⭕️Absent-minded = not paying attention to present reality
⭕️Abstracted = thinking about something else
⭕️Distracted = something claimed my attention
#Confusing_words
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🔹Professor Boffin is generally very absent-minded. (Not *abstracted* *distracted*)
🔹Sorry,I didn't hear what you said. I was abstracted for a moment.
🔹Sorry,I didn't hear what you said. I was distracted by the telephone.
⭕️Absent-minded = not paying attention to present reality
⭕️Abstracted = thinking about something else
⭕️Distracted = something claimed my attention
#Confusing_words
@VocabularyBoosterESL