Dreamish

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming..

Example Sentences

Sometimes a faintish, dizzy feeling flits through my brain, the ground and the mountains begin to quiver. The shout of a Bedouin rouses me from a dreamish stupor, to a keener desire for water. O for a cup of the cold water at my father's door!

Instead of getting drowsier she was getting more awake—with an odd night-time, dreamish kind of wakefulness.

The dreamish, arational quality of Baraka's poems is of a piece with his contempt for the confusion of rationality with rationalization (“Bankrupt utopia sez tell me / no utopias”).

It was fatigued thinking, dreamish thinking. She didn't even believe in spirits. But she recalled him standing firm in the waterfall current; she saw him pop up, desert dry, onto the top of Vance's trailer while it bobbed in the river; she saw her bookcase standing upright to cover the hole in her bedroom wall.

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• more dreamish
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