Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being distracted or drawn away.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.

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  • adjective Capable of being distracted

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Examples

  • I think that last sentence with its circumlocutions and three parenthetical digressions is indicative of my distracted or distractible state of mind ...

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2009

  • "They can be quite distractible and may start a million things and never finish them," says Don Malone, M.D., the director of the Center for Behavioral Health and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

    Bipolar Disorder: 10 Subtle Signs The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • But they were far more distractible, inattentive and fidgety—all symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactive disorder ADHD.

    Shop 'Til You Stop: How to Treat Compulsive Spending Melinda Beck 2011

  • The association was particularly strong among distractible students with high IQs.

    Bother Me, I'm Thinking Jonah Lehrer 2011

  • I'm quite distractible otherwise, which drives me nuts.

    Sunday morning giggle ... karenmiller 2009

  • I was a bit distractible yesterday (for some strange reason), and after dinner just could not drag myself back down to the emotional nadir that is my novel right now.

    Statement of Intent, 5/30/09 kirizal 2009

  • The Clinton White House, at least the press operation, seemed at times as distractible as the president himself.

    Where a Hotel Counts Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • Just as the contestants' actions are manipulated by the production crew, the crew's fate is controlled by the distractible public and callow network execs.

    First the Settlers, Then the Settled Sam Sacks 2011

  • It deserves a longer recap than this, but right now I'm distractible.

    Karen Dalton-Beninato: Strangled By a Haunted Social Scene: The Treme Season Finale 2010

  • It unfurls a sequence of dozens of brief ideas, expressed in spurts of sound effects to accompany someone's (presumably the composer's) distractible stream of consciousness.

    In performance: Alexander and Afiara Quartets 2010

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