DISTRACTEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distractedly mean? 

• DISTRACTEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb DISTRACTEDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a distracted manner

  Familiarity information: DISTRACTEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTRACTEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a distracted manner

Context example:

'Come in,' he said distractedly

Pertainym:

distracted (having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety)

 Context examples 

He ran distractedly, his pistol in his hand, towards a gap in the hedge.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was looking distractedly about for her family, even then; and her last words to me were, that she never would desert Mr. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I declare I quite doat upon them already, and indeed I am always distractedly fond of children.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

My watchfulness has been effectual; and though I certainly should be a more interesting object to all my acquaintances were I distractedly in love with him, I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I signed myself, hers distractedly; and I couldn't help feeling, while I read this composition over, before sending it by a porter, that it was something in the style of Mr. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“No! There's no way out of it, Mr. Wickfield, sir,” observed Uriah, “when it's got to this.” —that I did, said Mr. Wickfield, glancing helplessly and distractedly at his partner, that I did doubt her, and think her wanting in her duty to you; and that I did sometimes, if I must say all, feel averse to Agnes being in such a familiar relation towards her, as to see what I saw, or in my diseased theory fancied that I saw.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)