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| Main Entry: | abstracted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preoccupied |
| Synonyms: | absent-minded, daydreaming, inattentive, remote, withdrawn, lost in thought, out in space, out to lunch |
| Main Entry: | abstract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take away from |
| Synonyms: | detach, disconnect, disengage, dissociate, extract, isolate, part, remove, separate, steal, withdraw, take out, uncouple |
| Antonyms: | add, combine, fill, insert, introduce, unite |
| Main Entry: | abstract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare short document from longer one |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, condense, digest, outline, review, shorten, summarize |
| Antonyms: | complete, expand, insert, lengthen, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | absent-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out to lunch |
| Synonyms: | absent, absorbed, abstracted, careless, daydreaming, distracted, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, heedless, inattentive, lost, oblivious, preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, surroundings, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, distrait, goofing off, head in the clouds, inconscient, mooning, moony, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, space cadet, spacey, spacey, unaware of events, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | alert, attentive, aware |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | faraway |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | remote, distant |
| Synonyms: | absent, abstracted, distant, dreamy, far, far-flung*, lost, outlying, preoccupied, removed, beyond the horizon, far-off, far-removed, quite a ways, well away |
| Antonyms: | close, near |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forgetful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to not remember |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, abstracted, careless, distracted, dreamy, heedless, inattentive, lax, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, preoccupied, remiss, slack, sloppy, unmindful, unwitting, airheaded, amnemonic, amnesic, asleep on the job, bemused, like an absent-minded professor, looking out window, mooning, moony, nirvanic, not on the job, out of it, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | attentive, mindful, remembering, recalling, retentive |
| Main Entry: | idealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | visionary |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, chimerical, dreaming, impractical, optimistic, quixotic, radical, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian, idealized |
| Notes: | ideal means conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; idealistic means of or pertaining to idealists or their theories, pursuing perfection |
| Main Entry: | lackadaisical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, indifferent |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, apathetic, daydreaming, disinterested, dreamy, dull, enervated, halfhearted, idle, inattentive, indolent, inert, laid-back, languid, languishing, lazy, lethargic, limp, listless, passive, romantic, sentimental, slothful, spiritless, unconcerned, energyless, faineant, incurious, languorous, moony, spring fever |
| Antonyms: | active, careful, energetic, enthusiastic, caring, hard-working |
| Main Entry: | listless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spiritless, without energy |
| Synonyms: | absent, abstracted, apathetic, blah*, bored, careless, dormant, dreamy, drowsy, dull, easygoing, enervated, faint, heavy, heedless, impassive, inanimate, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, laid-back*, languid, languishing, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lukewarm, neutral, passive, phlegmatic, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, stupid, supine, thoughtless, torpid, uninterested, vacant, energyless, lagging, languorous, lymphatic, mopish, out of it |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, attentive, energetic, lively, untired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oblivious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware, ignorant |
| Synonyms: | absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, blind*, careless, deaf*, distracted, dreamy, forgetful, gone, heedless, inattentive, incognizant, insensible, neglectful, negligent, preoccupied, regardless, unacquainted, unconcerned, unconscious, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowing, unmindful, unobservant, unwitting, zonked*, amnesic, blundering, disregardful, forgetting, inconversant, not all there, out to lunch, overlooking, spacey, strung out, undiscerning, uninstructed, unnoticing, unrecognizing |
| Antonyms: | aware, concerned, conscious, mindful, sensitive, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meditative, solemn |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, abstracted, attentive, contemplative, dreamy, grave, musing, preoccupied, reflective, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn, cogitative, pondering, reflecting, ruminating, ruminative |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, shallow |
| Main Entry: | preoccupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy; mentally caught up in something |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, asleep*, daydreaming, deep*, distracted, engaged, engrossed, faraway, fascinated, forgetful, heedless, hung up*, immersed, intent, lost, oblivious, obsessed, rapt, removed, spellbound, unaware, airheaded, bemused, bugged, distrait, have on the brain, inconscient, lost in thought, mooning, moony, spread out, taken up, woolgathering, wrapped-up |
| Antonyms: | observant, thoughtful, unoccupied |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rapt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbed, fascinated |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, abstracted, bewitched, blissful, busy, charmed, daydreaming, deep*, delighted, dreaming, ecstatic, employed, enamored, engaged, engrossed, happy, held, hung up*, hypnotized, immersed, inattentive, intent, involved, lost, oblivious, occupied, overwhelmed, preoccupied, rapturous, spellbound, taken, transported, unconscious, wrapped, beguiled, captivated, carried away, caught up in, enraptured, enthralled, entranced, gripped, ravished, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | disenchanted, repulsed, turned off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed*, unreal, unrealistic, unworldly, utopian, delusory, in the clouds, unworkable |
| Antonyms: | practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reviewed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inspected |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, considered, examined, investigated, outlined, studied, analyzed, criticized, critiqued, judged, reconsidered, summarized, surveyed |
| Main Entry: | separated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | divided |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, apart, detached, disconnected, disjointed, distant, distinct, distributed, divergent, marked, removed, scattered, apportioned, cut apart, disassociated, disembodied, disunited, divorced, parted, partitioned, severed, sundered |
| Antonyms: | connected, together, united, whole, attached |
| Main Entry: | careless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without sufficient attention |
| Synonyms: | absent-minded, abstracted, casual, cursory, forgetful, hasty, heedless, improvident, imprudent, inaccurate, inadvertent, incautious, inconsiderate, indifferent, indiscreet, indolent, injudicious, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lax, loose, mindless, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, sloppy, thoughtless, unconcerned, unguarded, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, wasteful, disregardful, napping, pococurante, uncircumspect, unreflective |
| Antonyms: | accurate, attentive, careful, cautious, concerned, mindful, painstaking, prudent, ready, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | distant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | faraway |
| Synonyms: | a piece, abroad, abstracted, apart, arm's length, asunder, away, backwoods, beyond range, far, far back, far-flung, far-off, farther, further, in the background, in the boonies, in the distance, in the sticks, inaccessible, indirect, isolated, middle of nowhere, not home, obscure, out of earshot, out of range, out of reach, out-of-the-way, outlying, remote, removed, retired, secluded, secret, separate, sequestered, telescopic, unapproachable, ways, wide of, yonder* |
| Antonyms: | adjacent, close, near, nearby, neighboring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | separate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, apart, asunder, detached, discrete, disjointed, distant, distributed, divergent, divided, free, independent, isolated, loose, marked, removed, scattered, sovereign, unattached, unconnected, apportioned, cut apart, cut in two, disassociated, disembodied, disunited, divorced, far between, in halves, parted, partitioned, put asunder, set apart, set asunder, severed, sundered |
| Antonyms: | combined, connected, joined, mixed, together, united |
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