dreamy
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3.3
- adjective
- /ˈdriːmi/
:
ensimismado
- "Price's voice was slow and dreamy, pulling details out of his memory."
Everyone else should obey, but that's different than the sort of unthinking, dreamy, sleepy, substantial life.
- Everyone else should obey, but that's different than the sort of unthinking, dreamy, sleepy, substantial life.
Examples
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Your eyes look so dreamy.
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"My eyelids were heavy and my voice sounded dreamy to me as I lay against my pillows in the dark.
Fiction book (1994) -
What are you so dreamy about!
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You seem a little tired or dreamy or something.
Fiction book (1992) -
" But the voice was distant and dreamy, and the response was mild.
Fiction book (1995) -
His eyes became dreamy and glazed over at the memory, but he straightened up, remembering where he was.
Fiction book (1994) -
Sunk into a dreamy haze, he got up and lay face down on the sofa.
Fiction book (1990) -
Wolfram was a dreamy child who was perpetually lost in his own imaginary world.
Academic text (2011) -
His sister poises her sticks above the drum, jaw set, but her face perplexed and dreamy.
Fiction book (1995) -
The artist had a dreamy look on his face as he gazed out the window, lost in thought.
Synonyms
9
5.7
Having a calm, unreal quality as if you are half asleep
2
5.9
A person who often does not pay attention and forgets small things like keys
2
8.6
Feeling pleasantly slow and without much energy
1
7.3
Looking dreamy and lost in thought, not paying attention
1
7.9
Appearing confused and not paying attention, as if daydreaming
Appearing lost in thought with a soft, unfocused look
Being dreamy and often lost in romantic thoughts
Thinking in a dreamy way and not noticing everyday tasks
Antonyms
How Absent-Minded
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dreamy comes from the word dream plus the ending -y, where -y means 'like' or 'full of'. If someone's mind is in a dream while they are awake, they look absent and lost in thought, so dreamy can mean 'appearing absent-minded'.