| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy thought of when awake |
Synonyms: |
castle in the air, conceiving, dream, fancy, fancying, figment of imagination, fond hope, fool's paradise, head trip, imagination, imagining, in a zone, mind trip, musing, phantasm, phantasy, pie in the sky, pipe dream, reverie, stargazing, trip*, vision, wish, woolgathering |
Antonyms: |
reality |
| 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: | bemuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse |
Synonyms: |
addle, amaze, bewilder, daydream, daze, gather wool, moon, muddle, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, pipe dream, puzzle, stun, stupefy |
| Notes: | the first meaning of amuse was 'to divert the attention of in order to mislead,' 'delude, deceive' and now means 'entertain, make smile or laugh'; bemuse means 'confuse, bewilder, puzzle' |
Antonyms: |
clear up, enlighten, explain, illuminate, tell |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agonize over |
Synonyms: |
be in brown study, bleed, chafe inwardly, consider, daydream, deliberate, despond, dream, dwell upon, eat one's heart out, fret, gloom, grieve, lament, languish, meditate, mope, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, repine, ruminate, sigh, speculate, stew over, sulk, sweat out, sweat over, think about, think upon, worry |
Antonyms: |
not worry |
| Main Entry: | delusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconception, misbelief |
Synonyms: |
apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision |
Antonyms: |
actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
Synonyms: |
bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith |
Antonyms: |
actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
| 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: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking, dream |
Synonyms: |
big eyes, chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, imaginativeness, inclination, invention, itch, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky, pipe dream, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, romancing, sweet tooth, vision, yearning, yen |
Antonyms: |
certainty, fact, reality, truth |
| 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: | fantasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination, dream |
Synonyms: |
Atlantis, Utopia, air castle, apparition, appearance, bubble*, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, delusion, envisioning, externalizing, fabrication, fairyland, fancy, fancying, fantasia, figment, flight, flight of imagination, fool's paradise, hallucination, head trip, illusion, imaginativeness, imagining, invention, mind trip, mirage, nightmare, objectifying, originality, rainbow*, reverie, trip, vagary, vision |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |