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dreamish

dreamish adjective: resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.

Adjective

dreamish (comparative more dreamish, superlative most dreamish)

  1. Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.
    • 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!1861, Benjamin Bausman, Sinai and Zion; Or, A Pilgrimage through the Wilderness to the Land of Promise, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, chapter 6, 119
    • Instead of getting drowsier she was getting more awake—with an odd night-time, dreamish kind of wakefulness.1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 9, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998

Examples of dreamish in a sentence

  • 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”).1993, Nathaniel Mackey, chapter 2, in Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing, Cambridge University...
  • It was fatigued thinking, dreamish thinking.2013, Erin Healy, chapter 20, in Afloat, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 160:

Synonyms of dreamish

Forms of dreamish

comparativemore dreamish
superlativemost dreamish

Origin of dreamish

From dream + -ish.

Questions about dreamish

What does dreamish mean?
Dreamish means resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.
How do you use dreamish in a sentence?
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”).
What part of speech is dreamish?
Dreamish is an adjective.

Words near dreamish in the dictionary

  1. dreaming track
  2. dreaming tracks
  3. dreaming up
  4. dreamingly
  5. dreamings
  6. dreamish
  7. dreamjob
  8. dreamjobs
  9. dreamland
  10. Dreamland - Piripin Bato
  11. Dreamlander

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