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| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up fantasy |
| Synonyms: | conceive, dream, envision, fancy, fantasize, hallucinate, imagine, moon, muse, pipe dream*, build castles in air, stargaze, trip out, woolgather |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, surroundings, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, distrait, goofing off, head in the clouds, inconscient, mooning, moony, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, space cadet, spacey,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: | 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| Synonyms: | absent-minded, daydreaming, inattentive, remote, withdrawn, lost in thought, out in space, out to lunch |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: | abstraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being lost in thought |
| Synonyms: | absorption, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, daydreaming, detachment, musing, preoccupation, reflection, reverie, thinking, trance, aloofness, brooding, engrossment, entrancement, pensiveness, pondering, reflecting, remoteness, ruminating |
| 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: | heedless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless |
| Synonyms: | daydreaming, fast and loose, feckless, foolhardy, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, precipitate, rash, reckless, slapdash*, sloppy, thoughtless, uncaring, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, unwary, asleep at the switch, disregardful, goofing off, irreflective, out to lunch |
| Antonyms: | attentive, careful, cautious, concerned, heedful, observant, thoughtful, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | mindless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oblivious, stupid; automatic |
| Synonyms: | asinine, careless, daydreaming, foolish, forgetful, gratuitous, heedless, idiotic, inattentive, moronic, neglectful, negligent, obtuse, out, rash, senseless, silly, simple, thoughtless, unaware, unintelligent, unmindful, unthinking, witless, brutish, imbecilic, mooning, moony, nitwitted, out of it, spaced-out |
| Antonyms: | intelligent, mindful, thinking, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | off-guard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unprepared |
| Synonyms: | asleep, daydreaming, inattentive, spaced out*, unsuspecting, asleep on the job, flat-footed, napping, unalert, unready, unvigilant, unwatchful, zoned out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Notes: | occupied means in use or seized and controlled as by military invasion; preoccupied means deeply absorbed in thought or having compulsive concern with something |
| 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: | remiss |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, thoughtless |
| Synonyms: | any which way, culpable, daydreaming, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, forgetful, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, lax, lazy, neglectful, negligent, regardless, slack, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, tardy, uninterested, unmindful, any old way, asleep at switch, asleep on job, behindhand, defaultant, disregardful, fainéant, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | careful, mindful, scrupulous, thorough, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | unaware |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | blind, careless, daydreaming, deaf, forgetful, heedless, inattentive, incognizant, insensible, negligent, oblivious, out cold*, unacquainted, unconcerned, unconscious, unenlightened, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowing, unmindful, unsuspecting, unwitting, caught napping, deaf to, doped, in a daze, inconversant, mooning, nescient, not all there, not cognizant, out of it, out to lunch, spacey, uninstructed |
| Antonyms: | aware, cognizant, informed, knowing, suspicious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uninformed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware |
| Synonyms: | blind, daydreaming, deaf, ignorant, in the dark, inattentive, negligent, oblivious, unconscious, uneducated, unenlightened, unknowing, unschooled, caught napping, not informed, not told, out of it, out to lunch, unbriefed, uninstructed |
| Main Entry: | unknowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware |
| Synonyms: | blank, blind, daydreaming, deaf, ignorant, in the dark, inattentive, negligent, oblivious, unconscious, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, unschooled, caught napping, not informed, not knowing, not told, out of it, out to lunch, unbriefed, uninstructed |
| 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: | wishful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, ambitious, aspiring, craving, daydreaming, desiring, greedy, hankering, hopeful, itchy*, keen, longing, lustful, wishing, yearning, longful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dreaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | musing |
| Synonyms: | absent-minded, daydreaming |
| Main Entry: | preoccupation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absorption |
| Synonyms: | amusement, daydreaming, distraction, captivation, engrossment, preoccupancy |
| Main Entry: | unworldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spiritual |
| Synonyms: | abstract, astral, celestial, daydreaming, dreamy, ethereal, extraterrestrial, fantastic, incorporeal, metaphysical, otherworldly, religious, transcendental, unearthly, unreal, visionary, daydreamy, nonmaterialistic, supersensory |
| Antonyms: | earthly, material, worldly |
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