daydream
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈdeɪˌdriːm/
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ensueño
- Youths live recklessly because they imagine themselves immortal, and it is within this daydream that the middle-American mind still resides.
- daydreams and fantasies
- daydreams and imagination
- a world of daydreams
One Keats gazes off to the right with the look of Daydream.
- One Keats gazes off to the right with the look of Daydream.
- And it said vision without action is a Daydream.
- And I always say winning never visits you in your daydreams.
- And I partly mean daydreams and I partly mean just thought or anticipation of event that hasn't yet occurred.
- And if you, if that Daydream makes you become obsessive, makes you become passionate, makes you become driven, then that that's helpful.
- So it says one star romance author of the daydreams.
Examples
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I escaped from the family horrors into secret dreams: daydreams and night dreams.
Fiction book (1994) -
Of these activities, transitioning and daydreaming accounted for the greatest loss in academic time (Huitt et al., 1981).
Academic text (2014) -
Jose: I was caught up in a daydream, far away from here.
Fiction book (1992) -
I often think in music, I live my daydreams in music.
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I would tell her my daydreams, and she would not laugh at me.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm having more of those crazy daydreams.
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Ross, stuck in his daydream, had a hard time figuring out if Mandy was really standing there.
Fiction book (1991) -
I have this daydream all the time about my father, where I go to this roller skating rink and he's there doing some sort of show.
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During the boring lecture, I found myself slipping into a daydream about my next vacation.
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She often gets lost in a daydream while waiting for the bus, thinking of all the places she wants to visit.
Synonyms
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7.5
A pleasant daydream when you are lost in thought
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2.8
Thinking about things you want or imagine while you are awake
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9.9
Being lost in pleasant thoughts and not noticing things around you
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3.2
Thinking about pleasant things while not paying attention
Lost in daydreams and not paying attention
A state when you feel like you are dreaming while awake
Antonyms
How Imaginary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Daydream joins day 'time when you are awake' and dream 'a story in your mind', so a daydream is a pleasant or wishful thought you have while awake.