Definition of wool-gathering in English:

wool-gathering

noun

mass noun

Indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining; absent-mindedness.
a vacant daze that leads to formless wool-gathering
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘After her first success Alexandra went wool-gathering for some time and stopped working hard in the gym,’ she said.
- Is the 19 March memo just a bit of wool-gathering by the WTO Secretariat?
- Carr talks loneliness, life, joy and personal politics, deliberately avoiding wool-gathering or the delivery of harsh homilies.
- Buddhism may be diluted by sloppy New Age enthusiasms, and most non-Buddhist artists may revel in the narcissism, intellectual wool-gathering, conflict, and violence that the religion abhors.
Synonyms
daydreaming, dreaming, building castles in the air, building castles in Spain, reverie, musing, abstraction, preoccupation, brown study, distraction, inattention
absent-mindedness, forgetfulness

Derivatives

wool-gather

verbˈwʊlɡaðə

[no object]

Indulge in aimless thoughts or daydreams.
now wasn't the time to wool-gather about her love life
Example sentencesExamples
- He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts but wool-gathers them, that an old man's legs do not walk but must be lifted, that an old man's hands twitch vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade out as swiftly and secretly as dusk.
- The Congressman is wool-gathered in the assertions that the Reserve banks use Reserve notes (greenbacks in daily circulation) to pay the Government for the bonds.
- We can't afford for you to be wool-gathering at a time like this.

单词	wool-gathering
释义	Definition of wool-gathering in English: wool-gathering noun mass noun Indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining; absent-mindedness. a vacant daze that leads to formless wool-gathering Example sentencesExamples ‘After her first success Alexandra went wool-gathering for some time and stopped working hard in the gym,’ she said. Is the 19 March memo just a bit of wool-gathering by the WTO Secretariat? Carr talks loneliness, life, joy and personal politics, deliberately avoiding wool-gathering or the delivery of harsh homilies. Buddhism may be diluted by sloppy New Age enthusiasms, and most non-Buddhist artists may revel in the narcissism, intellectual wool-gathering, conflict, and violence that the religion abhors. Synonyms daydreaming, dreaming, building castles in the air, building castles in Spain, reverie, musing, abstraction, preoccupation, brown study, distraction, inattention absent-mindedness, forgetfulness Derivatives wool-gather verbˈwʊlɡaðə [no object] Indulge in aimless thoughts or daydreams. now wasn't the time to wool-gather about her love life Example sentencesExamples He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts but wool-gathers them, that an old man's legs do not walk but must be lifted, that an old man's hands twitch vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade out as swiftly and secretly as dusk. The Congressman is wool-gathered in the assertions that the Reserve banks use Reserve notes (greenbacks in daily circulation) to pay the Government for the bonds. We can't afford for you to be wool-gathering at a time like this.
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