| 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: | 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: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
Synonyms: |
absurd, aerial, bizarre, blue sky, capricious, castles in the air, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, notional, offbeat, on cloud nine, pie in the sky, pipe dream, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, suppositious, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild |
Antonyms: |
grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unfanciful, unimaginative, unromantic |
| 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: | pipe dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unrealistic hope |
Synonyms: |
air castle, airy hope, castle in the air, castle in the sky, castle in the sky, chimera, daydream, false hope, fantastic notion, fantasy, fool's paradise, fool's paradise, golden dream, pie in the sky, unreal hope, wishful thinking |
| Main Entry: | utopia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ideal place and life |
Synonyms: |
Arcadia, Eden, Elysian Fields, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Shangri-La, bliss, dreamland, dreamworld, fairyland, heaven, land of milk and honey, never-never land, paradise, perfection, pie in the sky, promised land, seventh heaven, wonderland |
Antonyms: |
hell |
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental image, concept |
Synonyms: |
angle, aspect, astuteness, breadth of view, castles in the air, conception, daydream, discernment, divination, dream, facet, fancy, fantasy, farsightedness, foreknowledge, foresight, head trip, idea, ideal, ideality, imagination, insight, intuition, keenness, mental picture, muse, nightmare, outlook, penetration, perspective, phantasm, pie in the sky, pipe dream, point of view, prescience, retrospect, slant, standpoint, trip, understanding, view |
| Main Entry: | pie in the sky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantastical wish |
Synonyms: |
Xanadu, air castle, castle in the air, empty promise, empty wish, end of the rainbow |
| Main Entry: | phantasma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream |
Synonyms: |
bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, hallucination, head trip, idea, illusion, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, phantasm, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow*, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, vision, wraith |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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