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DREAMY
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Irregular inflected forms: dreamier , dreamiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dreamy in mood or nature
Example:
a woolgathering moment
Synonyms:
dreamy; moony; woolgathering
Classified under:
Similar:
inattentive (showing a lack of attention or care)
Derivation:
dream (a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality)
dream (imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake)
dreaminess (a relaxed comfortable feeling)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking spirit or liveliness
Example:
a hot languorous afternoon
Synonyms:
dreamy; lackadaisical; languid; languorous
Classified under:
Similar:
lethargic; unenergetic (deficient in alertness or activity)
Derivation:
dreaminess (a relaxed comfortable feeling)
Context examples:
Very well satisfied with the dreamy nature of this retreat, I informed Mr. Spenlow that I had seen enough for that time, and we rejoined my aunt; in company with whom I presently departed from the Commons, feeling very young when I went out of Spenlow and Jorkins's, on account of the clerks poking one another with their pens to point me out.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was so beautiful in its form, it was so ashy pale, it was so fixed in its abstraction, it was so full of a wild, sleep-walking, dreamy horror of I don't know what.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
