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out to lunch
phrase as in absent-minded
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- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
phrase as in abstracted
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Strong match
phrase as in bananas
phrase as in comatose
phrase as in confused
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phrase as in crackers
phrase as in crazy
Weak matches
- barmy
- bats in the belfry
- batty
- bonkers
- cracked
- crazed
- daft
- delirious
- demented
- deranged
- dingy
- dippy
- erratic
- flaky
- flipped
- flipped-out
- freaked-out
- fruity
- idiotic
- mad as a March hare
- mad as a hatter
- maniacal
- mental
- moonstruck
- nutty as fruitcake
- of unsound mind
- out of one's mind
- out of one's tree
- round the bend
- screw loose
- screwy
- touched
- unbalanced
- unglued
- unhinged
- unzipped
phrase as in disjointed
phrase as in forgetful
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phrase as in haywire
phrase as in heedless
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phrase as in idiotic
phrase as in inattentive
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phrase as in incompetent
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phrase as in loony
phrase as in mixed-up
phrase as in muddle-headed
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- abashed
- addled
- addlepated
- at a loss
- at sea
- at sixes and sevens
- baffled
- befuddled
- bewildered
- come apart
- confounded
- confusional
- dazed
- discombobulated
- disconcerted
- disorganized
- distracted
- flummoxed
- flustered
- fouled-up
- glassy-eyed
- gone
- misled
- mixed up
- muddled
- nonplussed
- not with it
- perplexed
- perturbed
- punch-drunk
- punchy
- puzzled
- screwy
- shook-up
- shot to pieces
- slaphappy
- spaced out
- stumped
- taken aback
- thrown
- thrown off balance
- turbid
- unglued
- unscrewed
- unzipped
phrase as in oblivious
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Weak matches
- absent
- absentminded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- amnesic
- blundering
- careless
- disregardful
- distracted
- dreamy
- forgetful
- forgetting
- gone
- heedless
- incognizant
- inconversant
- insensible
- neglectful
- negligent
- not all there
- overlooking
- preoccupied
- regardless
- spacey
- strung-out
- unacquainted
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unrecognizing
- unwitting
- zonked
phrase as in spacey/spacy
phrase as in stupid
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Strong matches
phrase as in thick-witted
Weak matches
- blockheaded
- brainless
- dazed
- deficient
- dense
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- dull
- dumb
- dummy
- foolish
- futile
- gullible
- half-baked
- half-witted
- hebetudinous
- idiotic
- ill-advised
- imbecilic
- inane
- indiscreet
- insensate
- irrelevant
- laughable
- loser
- ludicrous
- meaningless
- mindless
- moronic
- naive
- nonsensical
- obtuse
- pointless
- puerile
- rash
- senseless
- shortsighted
- simple
- simpleminded
- slow
- sluggish
- stolid
- stupefied
- thick
- thick-headed
- thickheaded
- trivial
- unintelligent
- unthinking
- witless
phrase as in unaware
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Strong match
phrase as in unbalanced
phrase as in unhinged
phrase as in uninformed
Example Sentences
Office workers out to lunch got an impromptu lesson on its parts.
To hear our national leaders tell it, Los Angeles is in chaos and our governor and mayor are out to lunch with the police, blissfully ignoring reality as the city burns.
"There's already a rat infestation around here now. They are coming out to lunch every day," he said.
Maybe that happened before COVID, but now the stuff he's saying, it's just completely out to lunch.
"He picked on a few boys within that group, befriend us, invited us back out to lunch at his family home and slowly over the years became a sort of father figure to me."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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