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woolgathering
adjective as in absent-minded
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- 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
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
adjective as in forgetful
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adjective as in moony
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- abstracted
- astral
- calming
- chimerical
- daydreaming
- excellent
- fanciful
- fantastic
- gentle
- idealistic
- imaginary
- immaterial
- impractical
- intangible
- introspective
- introvertive
- lulling
- marvelous
- misty
- musing
- mythical
- nightmarish
- otherworldly
- out of this world
- pensive
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmagorical
- preoccupied
- quixotic
- relaxing
- shadowy
- soothing
- speculative
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- utopian
- vague
- visionary
- whimsical
adjective as in preoccupied
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adjective as in remiss
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noun as in daydream
noun as in daydreaming
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noun as in detachment
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noun as in remoteness
noun as in reverie
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Example Sentences
His interest in music—or rather, at first, in the free and glamorous lives of musicians—began with much posing and woolgathering.
Really, God thought with annoyance, this woolgathering—at such a moment!
I trust that your good man here is not jealous, for beauty, you well do ken, ever sends the wits of a Douglas woolgathering.
But surely one's mind must be curiously at random to go to such woolgathering.
Woolgathering, Ben had missed some remark about Artemis' rigging.
Amid that universal blaze and downright pour of stifling heat, his mind was gone woolgathering back into the old New Forest.
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On this page you'll find 313 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to woolgathering, such as: absent, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, bemused, and careless.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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