daydream

noun

1 she was lost in a daydream:

reverie, trance, fantasy, vision, fancy, hallucination, musing, brown study, imagining;

inattention, inattentiveness, woolgathering, preoccupation, brooding, obliviousness, engrossment, absorption, self-absorption, absentmindedness, absence of mind, staring into space, abstraction, lack of concentration, lack of application;

Scottish dwam;

humorous blonde moment.

▷antonyms concentration.

2 the thought of living in a mews cottage had been one of her daydreams:

dream, pipe dream, fantasy, figment of the imagination, unrealizable dream, castle in the air, castle in Spain;

wishful thinking;

fond hopes, wishes;

informal pie in the sky.

verb

stop daydreaming and pay attention:

dream, muse, be lost in thought, be in a brown study, stare into space, hallucinate;

fantasize, indulge in fantasy, indulge in fancy, indulge in woolgathering, be in cloud cuckoo land, be unrealistic, build castles in the air, build castles in Spain.

▷antonyms concentrate, focus.