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| Main Entry: | musing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pensive |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, introspective, meditative, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | musing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absorption |
| Synonyms: | contemplation, deliberation, meditation, reflection, thought |
| Main Entry: | muse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about, dream |
| Synonyms: | brood, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, feel, meditate, moon*, percolate, ponder, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, speculate, think, turn over, weigh, be lost in thought, build castles in air, chew over, mull over, puzzle over, think over |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | contemplative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep in thought |
| Synonyms: | attentive, intent, introspective, lost, meditative, musing, pensive, rapt, reflective, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, cogitative, in brown study, pondering, reflecting, ruminative |
| Antonyms: | disdainful, negligent, scornful, shallow, disregarding, rejecting, unreflective |
| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy thought of when awake |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air*, conceiving, dream, fancy, fancying, figment of imagination, fond hope, fool's paradise, head trip, imagination, imagining, in a zone, mind trip, musing, phantasm, phantasy, pie in the sky*, pipe dream, reverie, stargazing, trip*, vision, wish, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | meditative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative |
| Synonyms: | awake, aware, introspective, musing, pensive, philosophical, rapt, reflective, thinking, thoughtful, cogitative, lucubratory, prayerful, ruminant, ruminative |
| 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: | reverie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daydream |
| Synonyms: | absent-mindedness, absorption, abstraction, castle-building, castles in the air, contemplation, detachment, dreaminess, dreaming, fantasy, fool's paradise, head trip, inattention, meditation, mind trip, muse, musing, pensiveness, phantasy, pipe dream*, preoccupation, study, thought, trance, trip*, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | nightmare |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | study |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | learning, analysis |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, application, attention, class, cogitation, comparison, concentration, consideration, contemplation, course, debate, deliberation, examination, exercise, inquiry, inspection, investigation, lesson, meditation, muse, musing, questioning, reading, reasoning, reflection, research, reverie, review, scrutiny, subject, survey, thought, trance, weighing, academic work, analyzing, cramming, memorizing, pondering, rumination, schoolwork |
| 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: | wistful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | daydreaming, longing |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, desirous, disconsolate, dreaming, dreamy, forlorn, hopeless, meditative, melancholy, mournful, musing, nostalgic, pensive, plaintive, reflective, sad, thoughtful, wishful, yearning |
| Antonyms: | uncaring |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought |
| Synonyms: | cogitation, cognition, contemplation, deliberation, idea, introspection, judgment, logic, meditation, musing, opinion, reason, reasoning, reflection, study, understanding, cerebration, ideation, rationalization, rumination |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
| Synonyms: | appreciation, apprehension, clue, cognition, comprehension, conceit, concept, consideration, considering, design, dreaming, explanation, exposition, fancy, image, impression, inkling, interpretation, meditation, musing, notion, perception, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculation, thought, version, apperception, cogitating, communing, concentrating, deliberating, envisaging, fancying, imagining, intellection, meditating, mental grasp, philosophizing, speculating |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | contemplation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep thought; planning |
| Synonyms: | ambition, cogitation, consideration, deliberation, design, intention, meditation, musing, plan, purpose, reflection, reverie, study, pondering, rumination |
| Antonyms: | disdain, disregard, neglect, rejection, slight |
| Main Entry: | deduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, understanding |
| Synonyms: | answer, assumption, cogitation, consequence, consideration, contemplation, corollary, deliberation, derivation, finding, inference, judgment, meditation, musing, opinion, reasoning, reflection, result, speculation, thinking, thought, concluding, illation, inferring, mulling, pondering, ratiocination, rumination, sequitur |
| Antonyms: | confusion |
| Main Entry: | reflection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought, thinking |
| Synonyms: | absorption, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, idea, imagination, impression, meditation, musing, observation, opinion, speculation, study, view, brainwork, cerebration, pensiveness, pondering, rumination |
| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formation of mental objects |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, attention, cogitation, cognition, consideration, considering, contemplation, deduction, deliberation, discerning, heed, hope, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, thinking, understanding, apprehending, brainwork, cerebration, concluding, deducing, deriving, ideation, inducing, inferring, rationalization, rationalizing, rumination, theorization |
| Antonyms: | vacancy, vacuity |
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