| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up fantasy |
Synonyms: |
build castles in air, conceive, dream, envision, fancy, fantasize, hallucinate, imagine, moon, muse, pipe dream, stargaze, trip out, woolgather |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conjure up scenario |
Synonyms: |
be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, brainstorm, build castles in air, conceive, concoct, cook up, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker, hatch, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, search for pot of gold, sigh, stargaze, sublimate, think, think up, thirst, visualize |
| Main Entry: | fantasize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dream about desires |
Synonyms: |
build castles in air, daydream, envision, hallucinate, head trip, imagine, invent, live in a dream world, moon, romance, trip out, woolgather |
| Main Entry: | imagine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dream up, conceive |
Synonyms: |
brainstorm, build castles in air, conceptualize, conjure up, cook up, create, depict, devise, envisage, envision, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, figure, form, frame, harbor, image, invent, make up, nurture, perceive, picture, plan, project, realize, scheme, see in one's mind, spark, think of, think up, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | muse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about, dream |
Synonyms: |
be lost in thought, brood, build castles in air, chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, feel, meditate, moon*, mull over, percolate, ponder, puzzle over, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, speculate, think, think over, turn over, weigh |
Antonyms: |
ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | ponder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously |
Synonyms: |
appraise, brood, build castles in air, cerebrate, cogitate, consider, contemplate, daydream, debate, deliberate, dwell, evaluate, examine, excogitate, figure, give thought to, meditate, mind, moon*, mull, mull over, muse, noodle around, perpend, pipe dream, put on thinking cap, puzzle over, reason, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, speculate, study, think out, think over, turn over, weigh, woolgather |
Antonyms: |
forget, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | speculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about deeply and theorize |
Synonyms: |
beat one's brains, brainstorm*, build castles in air, call it, call the turn, cerebrate, chew over, cogitate, conjecture, consider, contemplate, deliberate, dope out, dope*, excogitate, figure, figure out*, guess, guesstimate, have a hunch, hazard a guess, head trip, hypothesize, kick around, meditate, muse, pipe-dream, psych out, read, read between lines, reason, reflect, review, ruminate, run it up flagpole, scheme, size up, study, suppose, surmise, suspect, weigh, wonder |
Antonyms: |
ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | hypothesize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speculate |
Synonyms: |
beat one's brains, brainstorm*, build castles in air, call it, call the turn, cerebrate, chew over, cogitate, conjecture, consider, contemplate, deliberate, dope out, dope*, excogitate, figure, figure out*, guess, guesstimate, have a hunch, hazard a |