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Antonyms for pipe dreaming
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : pahyp-dreem |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpaɪpˌdrim |
Definition of pipe dreaming
Origin :- 1870; the sort of improbable fantasy one has while smoking opium; from pipe (n.1) + dream (n.). Old English pipdream meant "piping."
- As in absent-minded : adj out to lunch
- As in forgetful : adj tending to not remember
- As in ponder : verb think about seriously
- As in speculate : verb think about deeply and theorize
- As in bemuse : verb confuse
- As in daydream : verb make up fantasy
Synonyms for pipe dreaming
- absent
- absent-minded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- addle
- airheaded
- amaze
- amnemonic
- amnesic
- appraise
- asleep on the job
- beat one's brains
- bemused
- bewilder
- brainstorm
- brood
- build castles in air
- call it
- call the turn
- careless
- cerebrate
- chew over
- cogitate
- conceive
- conjecture
- consider
- contemplate
- daydream
- daydreaming
- daze
- debate
- deliberate
- distracted
- distrait
- dope
- dope out
- dream
- dreaming
- dreamy
- dwell
- engrossed
- envision
- evaluate
- examine
- excogitate
- fancy
- fantasize
- faraway
- figure
- figure out
- forgetful
- gather wool
- give thought to
- goofing off
- guess
- guesstimate
- hallucinate
- have a hunch
- hazard a guess
- head in the clouds
- head trip
- heedless
- hypothesize
- imagine
- inattentive
- inconscient
- kick around
- lax
- like an absent-minded professor
- looking out window
- lost
- meditate
- mind
- moon
- mooning
- moony
- muddle
- mull
- mull over
- muse
- neglectful
- negligent
- nirvanic
- noodle around
- not on the job
- oblivious
- out of it
- out to lunch
- overwhelm
- paralyze
- perpend
- perplex
- pipe dream
- pipe dreaming
- pipe-dream
- preoccupied
- psych out
- put on thinking cap
- puzzle
- puzzle over
- read
- read between lines
- reason
- reflect
- remiss
- remote
- removed
- review
- revolve
- roll
- ruminate
- run it up flagpole
- scatterbrained
- scheme
- size up
- slack
- sloppy
- space cadet
- spacey
- speculate
- stargaze
- study
- stun
- stupefy
- suppose
- surmise
- surroundings
- suspect
- think out
- think over
- trip out
- turn over
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- unwitting
- weigh
- withdrawn
- wonder
- woolgather
- woolgathering
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