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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out to lunch |
| Synonyms: | absent, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, careless, daydreaming, distracted, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, goofing off, head in the clouds, heedless, inattentive, inconscient, lost, mooning, moony, oblivious, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, space cadet, spacey, spacey, surroundings, unaware of events, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | alert, attentive, aware |
| Main Entry: | preoccupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy; mentally caught up in something |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, asleep, bemused, bugged, daydreaming, deep*, distracted, distrait, engaged, engrossed, faraway, fascinated, forgetful, have on the brain, heedless, hung up, immersed, inconscient, intent, lost, lost in thought, mooning, moony, oblivious, obsessed, rapt, removed, spellbound, spread out, taken up, unaware, 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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