Found 4 hits - Term: woolgathering, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
woolgathering \wool"gath`ering\, a.
indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination;
roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
woolgathering \wool"gath`ering\, n.
indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit
or design.
1913 webster
his wits were a woolgathering, as they say. --burton.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
woolgathering
adj : dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment" syn: dreamy,
moony
n : an idle indulgence in fantasy
see also:
dreamy moony
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
62 moby thesaurus words for "woolgathering":
walter mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded,
absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness,
abstraction, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building,
daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought,
dream, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed,
engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction,
half-awake, in a reverie, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought,
meditative, mooning, moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness,
musing, muted ecstasy, napping, nodding, oblivious, pensive,
pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt,
reverie, somewhere else, stargazing, study, taken up, trance,
transported, unconscious, wrapped in thought
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