off-minded

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.