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lost in thought
adjective as in abstracted
Strongest matches
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
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Example Sentences
She was lost in thought about needles and haystacks, and all she heard was the quiet click of the library door closing behind her.
The books were stacked so high in front of her that she could barely see over them, but Penelope would know the way from the library to the nursery blindfolded, and she was lost in thought in any case.
Françoise was used to seeing him lost in thought, his mind wandering through some abstract idea maybe ten people on earth might understand.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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