Dreamish

Quick meaning: Dreamish is an adjective meaning Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.

Meaning

Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.

Example Sentences

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”).

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!

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.

Synonyms for dreamish

Depending on context, synonyms include dreamlike, dreamy, oneiric.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include daydreamlike, oneiric, dreamy, dreamsome, dreamlike, surreal.

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