Another word for dream
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Noun
An illusory mental image
See also:A fantastic, impracticable plan or desire
- An arc of spectral colors, usually identified as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, that appears in the sky opposite the sun as a result of the refractive dispersion of sunlight in drops of rain or mist.
- A similar arc or band, as one produced by a prism or by iridescence.
- A graded display of colors.
- A fantastic notion or vain hope.
- An erroneous perception of reality:
- An erroneous concept or belief:
- The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief:
- The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.
- Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.
- A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.
- An organism, organ, or part consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
- A substance, such as an antibody, created from the proteins or genes of two different species.
- An individual who has received a transplant of genetically and immunologically different tissue.
- an imaginary scheme not likely to be realized; daydream
- A thin, usually spherical or hemispherical film of liquid filled with air or gas:
- A globular body of air or gas formed within a liquid:
- A pocket formed in a solid by air or gas that is trapped, as during cooling or hardening.
See also:A fervent hope, wish, or goal
- A conception of something in its absolute perfection:
- One that is regarded as a standard or model of perfection or excellence:
- An ultimate or worthy object of endeavor; a goal:
- Expulsion of breath in speech.
- The pronunciation of a consonant with an aspirate.
- A speech sound produced with an aspirate.
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Verb
To experience dreams or daydreams
- To engage in fanciful daydreaming.
- To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in thought.
- To consider or say thoughtfully:
- A state of reflection.
- To portray in the mind; imagine.
- To indulge in fantasies.
- A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.
- To have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.
See also:To have a fervent hope or aspiration
- To have a great ambition or ultimate goal; desire strongly:
- To strive toward an end or condition:
- To rise high; move upwards.
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Idioms:
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Another word for dream
Noun
Mental pictures
- an imaginary scheme not likely to be realized; daydream
- (idiomatic) An idea, narrative, suggestion, etc. which is extremely imaginative and which appears to be entirely unrealistic, untrue, or impractical; thinking which is very speculative.
- The world of the dream state of consciousness taken as a reality.
- A love affair:
- Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love:
- A strong, sometimes short-lived attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm for something:
- A state of abstracted musing; daydreaming.
- A daydream:
- An effect, feeling, or image retained as a consequence of experience:
- A vague notion, remembrance, or belief:
- A mark produced on a surface by pressure.
- Something, such as a thought or conception, that is the product of mental activity.
- An opinion, conviction, or principle:
- A plan, purpose, or goal:
- A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.
- Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.
- A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze.
- An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air.
- Something illusory or insubstantial.
- An erroneous perception of reality:
- An erroneous concept or belief:
- The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief:
- A representation of the form of a person or object, such as a painting or photograph.
- A sculptured likeness.
- An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror.
- An evil spirit supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with women as they sleep.
- A nightmare.
- An oppressive or nightmarish burden.
- A ghostly apparition; a phantom.
- A haunting or disturbing image or prospect:
- An apparition of someone that is believed to appear as a portent just before that person's death.
- The ghost of a dead person.
- Something faint or insubstantial:
- The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.
- Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.
- A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.
- A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.
- To have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.
- The faculty of sight; eyesight:
- Something that is or has been seen.
- Unusual competence in discernment or perception; intelligent foresight:
- Perception of visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory experiences without an external stimulus and with a compelling sense of their reality, usually resulting from a mental disorder or as a response to a drug.
- The objects or events so perceived.
- A false or mistaken idea.
- A ghostly figure; a specter.
- A sudden or unusual sight:
- The act of appearing; appearance.
- A dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror, and distress.
- An event or experience that is intensely distressing.
- A demon or spirit once thought to plague sleeping people.
A fond hope
- A conception of something in its absolute perfection:
- One that is regarded as a standard or model of perfection or excellence:
- An ultimate or worthy object of endeavor; a goal:
- To wish or long for; want:
- To want to have sex with (another person).
- To express a wish for; request.
- The object toward which an endeavor is directed; an end.
- A structure or area into which players endeavor to propel a ball or puck in order to score points.
- A play or shot that sends a ball or puck into or through the goal.
- Expulsion of breath in speech.
- The pronunciation of a consonant with an aspirate.
- A speech sound produced with an aspirate.
Verb
To have visions, usually during sleep or fever
- To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility:
- To consider or regard in a certain way.
- To form a mental image of; envisage:
- To engage in psychological visualization with regard to (pain or a body process, for example).
- To render visible, as in an image or representation:
- Highly decorated:
- Complex or intricate:
- Elegantly fashionable or sophisticated:
- To undergo hallucination.
- To cause to have hallucinations.
See also:To entertain or delude oneself with imagined things
- A fantastic notion or vain hope.
- To regard or represent as ideal:
- To regard or represent something as ideal.
- The natural satellite of Earth, visible by reflection of sunlight and having a slightly elliptical orbit, approximately 356,000 kilometers (221,600 miles) distant at perigee and 406,997 kilometers (252,950 miles) at apogee. Its mean diameter is 3,475 kilometers (2,160 miles), its mass approximately one eightieth that of Earth, and its average period of revolution around Earth 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes calculated with respect to the sun.
- A natural satellite revolving around a planet.
- The moon as it appears at a particular time in its cycle of phases:
- To gaze at the stars.
- To daydream.
- To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in thought.
- To consider or say thoughtfully:
- A state of reflection.
- To form a mental image of; envisage:
- To engage in psychological visualization with regard to (pain or a body process, for example).
- To render visible, as in an image or representation:
- A visual representation or image painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface.
- A visible image, especially one on a flat surface or screen:
- A vivid or realistic verbal description:
- To cause to exist; bring into being:
- To give rise to; produce:
- To produce through artistic or imaginative effort:
- To become pregnant with (offspring):
- To form or develop in the mind:
- To apprehend mentally; understand:
- To form a mental picture or image of:
- To think or suppose; conjecture:
- To have a notion of or about without adequate foundation; fancy or believe:
- A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.
- To have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.
- To portray in the mind; imagine.
- To indulge in fantasies.
- Highly decorated:
- Complex or intricate:
- Elegantly fashionable or sophisticated:
See also:To conceive mentally; usually used in the negative
- To assume to be true or real for the sake of argument or explanation:
- To believe, especially on uncertain or tentative grounds:
- To consider to be probable or likely:
- To accept as true or real:
- To credit with veracity:
- To expect or suppose; think:
- To think carefully about (something), especially before making a decision;
- To think or deem to be; regard as:
- To suppose or believe:
- To create in one's mind; to originate an idea through thought.
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