woolgatherer

Questions about woolgatherer

What does woolgatherer mean?

woolgatherer means "someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming".

How many syllables are in woolgatherer?

woolgatherer has 4 syllables and divides as wool-ga-the-rer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for woolgatherer?

Close synonyms include daydreamer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is woolgatherer a common word?

woolgatherer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.