off-minded
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
off-minded (comparative more off-minded, superlative most off-minded)
- Absent-minded; distracted; being of less than sound mind; mentally despondent; touched.
- 1892, Southern practitioner:
- 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, [...]
- Mentally unstable or insane; crazy.
- 2011, Michael A. Heck, Angel Above Water:
- Anyway, my little tootsie-bug, you are very right about how offminded that crazy man is.