woolgathering - 11 thesaurus results
| 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preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, surroundings, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, distrait, goofing off, head in the clouds, inconscient, mooning, moony, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, space cadet, spacey,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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | detachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloofness |
| Synonyms: | brown study*, coolness, impartiality, indifference, neutrality, objectivity, preoccupation, reverie, unconcern, coldness, disinterestedness, dreaminess, incuriosity, nonpartisanship, remoteness, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | bias, compassion, interest, kindness, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | fantasize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dream about desires |
| Synonyms: | daydream, envision, hallucinate, head trip, imagine, invent, moon, romance, build castles in air, live in a dream world, trip out, woolgather |
| Main Entry: | mull |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously |
| Synonyms: | brood over, chaw, consider, contemplate, delay, deliberate, examine, figure, hammer away at, linger, meditate, moon*, muse on, ponder, pore over, procrastinate, rack one's brains, reflect, review, revolve, ruminate, stew over, study, sweat over, think over, turn over, weigh, woolgather |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ponder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously |
| Synonyms: | appraise, brood, cogitate, consider, contemplate, daydream, debate, deliberate, dwell, evaluate, examine, excogitate, figure, meditate, mind, moon*, mull, muse, pipe dream*, reason, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, speculate, study, turn over, weigh, build castles in air, cerebrate, give thought to, mull over, noodle around, perpend, put on thinking cap, puzzle over, think out, think over, woolgather |
| Antonyms: | forget, ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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