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fever-dreamlike

fever-dreamlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a fever dream.

Adjective

fever-dreamlike (comparative more fever-dreamlike, superlative most fever-dreamlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fever dream.
    • Stuart Gordon, whose debut, RE-ANIMATOR, was the sleeper horror hit of 1985, returned again to the fever-dreamlike stories of H.P. Lovecraft for his source in FROM BEYOND.1989, “FROM BEYOND”, in James J. Mulay, editor, The Horror Film: A Guide to More Than 700 Films on Videocassette, Evanston, Ill.: CineBooks, →ISBN, page 91, column 2
    • [T]he dominant tone is barely suppressed hysteria, complemented perfectly by Philip Glass’s insistent, fever-dreamlike score.2007, David Gritten, “Notes on a Scandal”, in Halliwell’s Film, Video & DVD Guide 2008, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 859, column 4

Forms of fever-dreamlike

comparativemore fever-dreamlike
superlativemost fever-dreamlike

Origin of fever-dreamlike

From fever dream + -like.

Questions about fever-dreamlike

What does fever-dreamlike mean?
Fever-dreamlike means resembling or characteristic of a fever dream.
What part of speech is fever-dreamlike?
Fever-dreamlike is an adjective.

Words near fever-dreamlike in the dictionary

  1. fever tea
  2. fever trap
  3. fever traps
  4. fever tree
  5. fever trees
  6. fever-dreamlike
  7. fever-pitched
  8. fever-ridden
  9. fever-swamp
  10. fever-swamps
  11. feverbush

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