off-minded

English

Alternative forms
  • offminded

Etymology

From off- +‎ minded.

Adjective

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

  1. 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, [...]
  2. 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.
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