Dreamlike

Quick meaning: Dreamlike is an adjective meaning Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.

Meaning

Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.

Example Sentences

Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss.

The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi, “Diana's Mirror,” as it was called by the ancients.

Even when the legend is of an actual historical personage, the deeds of victory are rendered, not in lifelike, but in dreamlike figurations; for the point is not that such-and-such was done on earth; the point is that, before such-and-such could be done on earth, this other, more important, primary thing had to be brought to pass within the labyrinth that we all know and visit in our dreams.

Synonyms for dreamlike

Depending on context, synonyms include dreamish, dreamy, oneiric, surreal, unreal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include surreal, unreal, dreamish, daydreamlike, dreamy, oneiric.

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