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pipe dreaming
adjective as in absent-minded
Weak matches
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
adjective as in forgetful
Strongest matches
Strong match
Example Sentences
Today the seldom-heard Porter songs hold the most interest, especially “Look What I Have Found,” a love-at-first-sight number helped along by Rebekah Hinds’s beautiful voice, and “Pipe Dreaming,” nicely delivered by Rob Eyles.
“I’m not pipe dreaming,” Tom replied.
Pipe dreaming did not attract her; she was too fiercely bent upon escape, actual escape, to waste time in dreaming of ways of escape that she never could realize.
"You are pipe dreaming, Wood," spoke up one of the boys.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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