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| Main Entry: | |
| 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cadet, spacey, spacey, surroundings, unaware of events, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, woolgathering |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: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up fantasy |
| Synonyms: | build castles in air, conceive, dream, envision, fancy, fantasize, hallucinate, imagine, moon, muse, pipe dream, stargaze, trip out, woolgather |
| Main Entry: | detachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloofness |
| Synonyms: | brown study, coldness, coolness, disinterestedness, dreaminess, impartiality, incuriosity, indifference, neutrality, nonpartisanship, objectivity, preoccupation, remoteness, reverie, unconcern, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | bias, compassion, interest, kindness, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | fantasize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dream about desires |
| Synonyms: | build castles in air, daydream, envision, hallucinate, head trip, imagine, invent, live in a dream world, moon, romance, trip out, woolgather |
| Main Entry: | forgetful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to not remember |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, abstracted, airheaded, amnemonic, amnesic, asleep on the job, bemused, careless, distracted, dreamy, heedless, inattentive, lax, like an absent-minded professor, looking out window, mooning, moony, neglectful, negligent, nirvanic, not on the job, oblivious, out of it, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, preoccupied, remiss, slack, sloppy, unmindful, unwitting, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | attentive, mindful, recalling, remembering, retentive |
| 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, build castles in air, cerebrate, cogitate, consider, contemplate, daydream, debate, deliberate, dwell, evaluate, examine, excogitate, figure, give thought to, meditate, mind, moon*, mull, mull over, muse, noodle around, perpend, pipe dream, put on thinking cap, puzzle over, reason, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, speculate, study, think out, think over, turn over, weigh, woolgather |
| Antonyms: | forget, ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
| Main Entry: | remiss |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, thoughtless |
| Synonyms: | any old way, any which way, asleep at switch, asleep on job, behindhand, culpable, daydreaming, defaultant, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, disregardful, fainéant, forgetful, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, lax, lazy, neglectful, negligent, regardless, slack, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, tardy, uninterested, unmindful, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | careful, mindful, scrupulous, thorough, thoughtful |
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