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| 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: | 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preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, surroundings, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, distrait, goofing off, head in the clouds, inconscient, mooning, moony, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, space cadet, spacey,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: | adorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cute, lovable |
| Synonyms: | ambrosial, appealing, attractive, charming, cute, darling, dear, delectable, delicious, delightful, dreamy*, fetching, heavenly, hot*, luscious, pleasing, precious, sexy, suave, captivating, dishy |
| Antonyms: | cursed, despicable, detestable, hateful, hateable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blissful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | beatific, cool*, crazy, delighted, dreamy, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, floating*, flying*, gone*, heavenly, joyful, joyous, mad*, on cloud nine*, rapturous, sent, enraptured, euphoric, in ecstasy, in seventh heaven, in the twilight zone, spaced-out, turned-on |
| Antonyms: | miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, wretched, grieving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drowsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleepy |
| Synonyms: | comatose, dazed, dreamy, drugged, heavy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lazy, lethargic, restful, sluggish, somnolent, soothing, soporific, tired, torpid, dopy, dozing, dozy, half asleep, lulling, napping, nodding, out of it, slumberous, snoozy |
| Antonyms: | alert, awake, lively, energized |
| Main Entry: | ecstatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, blissful |
| Synonyms: | beatific, crazy, delirious, dreamy, elated, enthusiastic, fervent, floating, frenzied, gone*, high*, joyful, joyous, mad, on cloud nine*, out, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic, sent, sunny, thrilled, tickled pink*, transported, upbeat, wild, athrill, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, flying high, in exaltation, in seventh heaven, pleased as punch, ravished, tickled to death, turned on |
| Antonyms: | sorrowful, troubled, unhappy, despaired, tormented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up*, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inattentive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | negligent, not paying attention |
| Synonyms: | absent, absentminded, apathetic, blind, bored, careless, distracted, distraught, diverted, dreamy, faraway, heedless, inadvertent, indifferent, listless, lost*, musing, neglectful, oblivious, off-guard*, preoccupied, rapt, regardless, remiss, removed, scatterbrained*, thoughtless, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, vague, distrait, inobservant, out to lunch, undiscerning, unnoticing, unobserving, unperceiving, unwatchful |
| Antonyms: | attentive, heedful, noticing, observant, looking |
* = 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: | 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: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, flimsy, gone, groundless, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void*, shadowy, tenuous, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, gossamery, hallucinatory, imponderable, passed away, passed on, perished, ungrounded, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existing, real, true, existent |
* = 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: | quixotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealistic |
| Synonyms: | chimerical, chivalrous, dreaming, dreamy, foolish, impetuous, impractical, impulsive, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian, visionary |
| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, amorous, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, loving, maudlin, mushy*, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, starry-eyed, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild, bathetic, fairy-tale, lovey-dovey, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sentimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional, romantic |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy, effusive, gushing, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, loving, maudlin, mushy*, nostalgic, overacted, passionate, pathetic, saccharine*, sappy*, silly, sloppy*, soapy, soft, softhearted*, sugary*, sweet, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy, gushy, lovey-dovey, moonstruck, overemotional, rosewater, schmaltzy, simpering, slushy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, pragmatic, unemotional, hard-hearted, unromantic, unsentimental |
* = 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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