Woolgathering

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  woolgathering
       adj : dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment" [syn: {dreamy},
              {moony}]
       n : an idle indulgence in fantasy

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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