| 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: | dreaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | musing |
Synonyms: |
absent-minded, daydreaming |
| Main Entry: | absent-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out to lunch |
Synonyms: |
absent, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, careless, daydreaming, distracted, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, goofing off, head in the clouds, heedless, inattentive, inconscient, lost, mooning, moony, oblivious, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, space cadet, spacey, spacey, surroundings, unaware of events, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, woolgathering |
Antonyms: |
alert, attentive, aware |
| Main Entry: | asleep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
Synonyms: |
catching some zzz's, comatose, conked, crashed, dormant, dozing, dreaming, flaked out, getting shut-eye, hibernating, in dreamland, in repose, inactive, inert, napping, on the kip, out cold, out like a light, out of it, out*, reposing, resting, sacked out, sleeping, slumbering, snoozing, snoring, somnolent, taking forty winks |
Antonyms: |
attentive, awake, conscious |
| Main Entry: | aspire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aim, hope |
Synonyms: |
be ambitious, be eager, crave, desire, dream, hanker, long, pursue, seek, strive, struggle, try, want, wish, yearn |
| 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: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
Synonyms: |
apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
Antonyms: |
being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | crave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire intensely |
Synonyms: |
ache for, covet, cry out for, die for, dream, eat one's heart out, fancy, give eyeteeth for, hunger for, itch for, long for, lust after, need, pine for, require, sigh for, spoil for, suspire, thirst for, want, yearn for, yen for |
Antonyms: |
abjure, dislike, hate, not want, spurn |
| 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: | idealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | visionary |
Synonyms: |
abstracted, chimerical, dreaming, idealized, impractical, optimistic, quixotic, radical, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian |