单词 | absently |
释义 | absently (once / 1929 pages) adv WORD FAMILY absent: absence, absented, absentee, absenting, absently, absents+/absence: absences/absentee: absenteeism, absentees USAGE EXAMPLESA palm-sized black woman in your hand when you brushed your hair at night, looking absently into the mirror. The New Yorker(Nov 12, 2016) “I was a little scared to get involved,” he said, biting his nails absently. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) Absently, she removed a scrap of lint entangled in Aziza’s hair. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) adv in an absentminded or preoccupied manner he read the letter absently Syn absentmindedly, abstractedly, inattentively |
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