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daydream
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Noun daydream has 1 sense
- daydream(n = noun.cognition) air castle, castle in spain, castle in the air, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery - absentminded dreaming while awake; Array is a kind of dream, dreaming
Derived forms verb daydream1, verb daydream2
Verb daydream has 2 senses
- daydream(v = verb.creation) dream, stargaze, woolgather - have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy; Array is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
- daydream(v = verb.social) moon - have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" is one way to idle, laze, slug, stagnate
Derived forms noun daydream1, noun daydreamer1, noun daydreaming1
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Derived forms noun daydream1, noun daydreamer1, noun daydreaming1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
THESAURUS
daydream
Walter Mitty, 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, wander, wishful thinking, wishfulness, wistful eye, wistfulness, woolgathering, wrong impression, yearnfulness
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