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Dreamy

Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.

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Inattentive 84% connected

Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive ha…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Inattentive 84% connected

Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive ha…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Lethargic 84% connected

Alt. of Lethargical

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Lethargic 84% connected

Alt. of Lethargical

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Dream 74% connected

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dream 74% connected

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Languor 74% connected

A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Languor 74% connected

A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Lackadaisical 92% connected

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Languid 92% connected

Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Languorous 92% connected

Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Moony 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the moon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Woolgathering 92% connected

Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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