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lost in thought
adjective as in abstracted
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Strong match
adjective as in distrait
adjective as in preoccupied
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adjective as in ruminative
Weak matches
- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- contemplative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- excogitative
- farsighted
- grave
- in a brown study
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflecting
- reflective
- retrospective
- serious
- sober
- speculative
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
adjective as in thoughtful
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
Some whisper, some sleep, some stare at the ceiling, lost in thought.
Men rowing boats on the river, reading books or newspapers, playing the piano, working at a desk or merely sitting in a comfortable chair lost in thought.
He’s lost in thought, seemingly unaware of the world around him, and he goes back to the painting.
She climbed up the stairs to the top of the tower and found him lost in thought as he looked out the window, an untouched cup of tea sitting on the table next to him.
They are all lost in thought and rarely converse with each other.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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