Word Study
woolgathering
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun woolgathering has 1 sense
- woolgathering(n = noun.cognition) Array - an idle indulgence in fantasy; Array is a kind of dream, dreaming
Derived form verb woolgather1
Adjective woolgathering has 1 sense
- woolgathering(s = adj.all) dreamy, moony - dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment"
CIDE DICTIONARY
woolgathering, a.
Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful. [1913 Webster]
woolgathering, n.
Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. [1913 Webster]
"His wits were a woolgathering, as they say."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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
For further exploring for "woolgathering" in Webster Dictionary Online
