1. [informal] A scientist who studies celestial bodies, their origins, motions, composition and evolution
   "The stargazer spent nights observing distant galaxies through the telescope";
   - astronomer, uranologist
    
2. Someone indifferent to the busy world
   "in the Odyssey Homer tells of stargazers who live in dreamy indolence";
   - lotus-eater
    
3. A heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurking fish, with eyes on flattened top of the head
   "The stargazer buried itself in the sand, with only its eyes visible"

Derived forms: stargazers

Type of: daydreamer, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, physicist, woolgatherer

Part of: family Uranoscopidae, Uranoscopidae

Encyclopedia: Stargazer