Thesaurus / woolgathering
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Really, God thought with annoyance, this woolgathering—at such a moment!
THE WORSHIPPERSDAMON FRANCIS KNIGHTI trust that your good man here is not jealous, for beauty, you well do ken, ever sends the wits of a Douglas woolgathering.
THE BLACK DOUGLASS. R. CROCKETTBut surely one's mind must be curiously at random to go to such woolgathering.
OLD JUNKH. M. TOMLINSONWoolgathering, Ben had missed some remark about Artemis' rigging.
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORNAmid that universal blaze and downright pour of stifling heat, his mind was gone woolgathering back into the old New Forest.
CRADOCK NOWELL, VOL. 3 (OF 3)RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMOREMaster Pennybet, in the common way of tired children, finished the day in listless woolgathering.
TELL ENGLANDERNEST RAYMONDSuch strange alleys do my thoughts run along when I am woolgathering in the field.
TELL ENGLANDERNEST RAYMONDMrs. Ferrall's wits returned nimbly from woolgathering, and she shot a startled, inquiring glance at the girl beside her.
THE FIGHTING CHANCEROBERT W. CHAMBERSIn a woolgathering way, the animal acknowledged Reuben's feet, but had no time for them.
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORNWith his wits thus woolgathering as he walked, he one day suddenly tumbled into a pit.
A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE, WITH SELECTIONSISABEL FLORENCE HAPGOODWORDS RELATED TO WOOLGATHERING
- absent
- absent-minded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- asleep
- bemused
- bugged
- daydreaming
- deep
- distracted
- distrait
- engaged
- engrossed
- faraway
- fascinated
- forgetful
- have on the brain
- heedless
- hung up
- immersed
- inconscient
- intent
- lost
- lost in thought
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- obsessed
- rapt
- removed
- spellbound
- spread-out
- taken up
- unaware
- woolgathering
- wrapped-up
- any old way
- any which way
- asleep at switch
- asleep on job
- behindhand
- culpable
- daydreaming
- defaultant
- delinquent
- derelict
- dilatory
- disregardful
- fainéant
- forgetful
- heedless
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- lackadaisical
- lax
- lazy
- neglectful
- negligent
- regardless
- slack
- slapdash
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slothful
- slow
- tardy
- uninterested
- unmindful
- woolgathering
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