| Pronunciation: | | 'dey`dreem
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| Matching Terms: | | daydreamer, daydreaming
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- [n] absent-minded dreaming while awake
- [v] have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- [v] have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming"
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| | Synonyms: | | air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydreaming, dream, moon, oneirism, reverie, revery, stargaze, woolgather |
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| | See Also: | | conceive of, concoct, dream, dream up, dreaming, envisage, hatch, ideate, idle, imagine, laze, slug, stagnate, think of, think up |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Day"dream`\ (-dr[=e]m`), n.
A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air;
unfounded hope.
Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. --Thackeray.
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| | Related Terms: | | absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, airy nothing, autism, bad dream, be absent, bemusement, brown study, bubble, castle-building, chimera, conceiving, daydreamer, daydreaming, deception, deluded belief, delusion, depth of thought, dereism, divagate, dream, dream of, dream vision, dreaming, dreamland, dreamworld, engrossment, false belief, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, freak out, go woolgathering, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagination, imagining, incubus, misbelief, misconception, moon, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, nightmare, nostalgia, phantasm, pipe dream, pipe-dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, reverie, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, stargaze, stargazing, stray, study, trance, trick, trip, vapor, vision, Walter Mitty, wander, wishful thinking, wishfulness, wistful eye, wistfulness, woolgathering, wrong impression, yearnfulness |
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