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pipe-dreamed

pipe-dreamed is the simple past and past participle of pipe-dream.

Meaning of pipe-dream

Verb

pipe-dream (third-person singular simple present pipe-dreams, present participle pipe-dreaming, simple past and past participle pipe-dreamed)

  1. (intransitive) To have a desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or to imagine a plan which is unlikely to work; to dream of a near impossibility.
    • Love is life sublime, / Ev'ry moment that I'm / Only wasting my time / Pipe dreaming of you, / Pipe dreaming of you, […]1946 April, Cole Porter, “Around the World in Eighty Days [Pipe Dreaming]”, in Robert Kimball, editor, The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page...

Questions about pipe-dreamed

What is pipe-dreamed the simple past and past participle of?
Pipe-dreamed is the simple past and past participle of pipe-dream.

Words near pipe-dreamed in the dictionary

  1. pipe-and-slipper
  2. pipe-and-slippers
  3. pipe-bowl
  4. pipe-bowls
  5. pipe-dream
  6. pipe-dreamed
  7. pipe-dreaming
  8. pipe-dreams
  9. pipe-fish
  10. pipe-fishes
  11. pipe-hawk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pipe-dreamed (page history and authors); pipe-dream (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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