Distractedly means in a distracted way: you speak, nod, or move as if your mind is not fully here. He stirred his coffee distractedly. She answered distractedly, her eyes on the rain. In modern writing this almost always paints the milder picture — attention wandering, thoughts elsewhere — though it can still carry the heavier, anxious sense when the rest of the sentence is full of worry. It is a storyteller’s adverb, common in novels and a little dressed-up in speech. In real talk people more often say “she wasn’t really listening” or “his mind was somewhere else.”