'Woolgathering' definitions:
Definition of 'woolgathering'
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Definition of 'Woolgathering'
From: GCIDE
- Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, a. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Woolgathering'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'woolgathering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Walter Mitty,
- wrapped in thought