| Main Entry: | rainbow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | color spectrum |
Synonyms: |
arc, band of color, bow, crescent, curve, prism, variegation |
| 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 |
| 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: | 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 |
| Notes: | fantasy is imagination unrestricted by reality; phantasm is a ghostly appearing figure or something existing in perception only |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | kaleidoscopic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | multicolored |
Synonyms: |
many-colored, motley, multicolor, particolored, polychromatic, prismatic, psychedelic, rainbow, varicolored, variegated |
Antonyms: |
monochrome |
| Main Entry: | motley |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mixed, varied |
Synonyms: |
assorted, conglomerate, dappled, discrepant, disparate, dissimilar, diversified, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, kaleidoscopic, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multiform, multihued, polychromatic, prismatic, rainbow, unlike, varicolored, variegated, various, versicolor |
Antonyms: |
homogenous, like, same, similar, uniform, unmixed, unvaried |
| Main Entry: | spectrum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | color spectrum |
Synonyms: |
chromatic spectrum, hue cycle, rainbow |
| Main Entry: | variegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | iridescence |
Synonyms: |
diversification, rainbow, spectrum |
| Main Entry: | ignis fatuus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion |
Synonyms: |
apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, deja vu, delusion, 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, phantasma, pipe dream, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality, will-o'-the-wisp |