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| 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: | bemuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse |
| Synonyms: | amaze, bewilder, daydream, daze, moon, muddle, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, pipe dream*, puzzle, stun, stupefy, addle, gather wool |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chimera |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream, fantasy |
| Synonyms: | bogy, bubble, delusion, fabrication, fancy, fata morgana, figment, fool's paradise, hallucination, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, monster, monstrosity, pipe dream*, rainbow*, snare, specter, virtual reality |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up fantasy |
| Synonyms: | conceive, dream, envision, fancy, fantasize, hallucinate, imagine, moon, muse, pipe dream*, build castles in air, stargaze, trip out, woolgather |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false appearance; false belief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus*, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream*, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality |
| Antonyms: | certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ponder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously |
| Synonyms: | appraise, brood, cogitate, consider, contemplate, daydream, debate, deliberate, dwell, evaluate, examine, excogitate, figure, meditate, mind, moon*, mull, muse, pipe dream*, reason, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, speculate, study, turn over, weigh, build castles in air, cerebrate, give thought to, mull over, noodle around, perpend, put on thinking cap, puzzle over, think out, think over, woolgather |
| Antonyms: | forget, ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reverie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daydream |
| Synonyms: | absent-mindedness, absorption, abstraction, castle-building, castles in the air, contemplation, detachment, dreaminess, dreaming, fantasy, fool's paradise, head trip, inattention, meditation, mind trip, muse, musing, pensiveness, phantasy, pipe dream*, preoccupation, study, thought, trance, trip*, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | nightmare |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | castle in the air |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wishful thinking |
| Synonyms: | air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the sky, daydream, dreamscape, fantasy, flight of fancy, fond illusion, fool's paradise, pipe dream, unrealistic goal |
| Main Entry: | fool's paradise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusory state of happiness |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air, chimera, limbo, pipe dream, utopia, delusive contentment, dreamscape, false hope, fond illusion, quixotic ideal |
| Main Entry: | illusory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, float, ideal, illusive, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pipe dream, seeming, sham, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, Barmecidal, blue sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real |
| 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, nightmare, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith, mental picture |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, design, desire, flight of fancy*, hope, notion, pipe dream*, wish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking, dream |
| Synonyms: | chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, inclination, invention, itch*, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, sweet tooth*, vision, yearning, yen, big eyes, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, imaginativeness, romancing |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental image, concept |
| Synonyms: | angle, aspect, astuteness, conception, daydream, discernment, divination, dream, facet, fancy, fantasy, farsightedness, foreknowledge, foresight, head trip, idea, ideal, imagination, insight, intuition, keenness, muse, nightmare, outlook, penetration, perspective, phantasm, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, point of view, prescience, retrospect, slant, standpoint, trip, understanding, view, breadth of view, castles in the air, ideality, mental picture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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