▪ seeming remote from the immediate surroundings; dreamy:"she had a strange faraway look in her eyes"Similardreamydaydreamingabstractedabsentmindeddistractedpreoccupiedabsorbedengrossedvaguelost in thoughtsomewhere elsenot therenot with usin a world of one's ownwith one's head in the cloudsinformal:miles awayOppositealert