Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, a.
Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination;
roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, n.
Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit
or design.
[1913 Webster]
His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. --Burton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
woolgathering
adj : dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment" [syn: dreamy,
moony]
n : an idle indulgence in fantasy
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dreamy, moony
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