PREOCCUPIED

adj. 1 engrossed, lost in thought, rapt, thoughtful, pensive, absorbed, cogitating, cogitative, meditating, musing, reflecting, reflective, contemplative, contemplating, pondering, brooding, ruminating, in a brown study John is preoccupied, thinking about the speech he has to deliver tonight 2 vague, offhand, far-away, absent-minded, abstracted, oblivious, unaware, wrapped up, immersed, inattentive, distracted, distrait, Colloq turned off, US out of it From her preoccupied air it was obvious that something was wrong