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| Main Entry: | rainbow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | color spectrum |
| Synonyms: | arc, bow, crescent, curve, prism, variegation, band of color |
| 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: | 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 |
* = 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: | kaleidoscopic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | multicolored |
| Synonyms: | motley, psychedelic, rainbow, variegated, many-colored, multicolor, particolored, polychromatic, prismatic, varicolored |
| Antonyms: | monochrome |
| Main Entry: | motley |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mixed, varied |
| Synonyms: | assorted, conglomerate, dappled, discrepant, disparate, dissimilar, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, kaleidoscopic, miscellaneous, mixed, mottled, multicolored, rainbow, unlike, variegated, various, diversified, mingled, multicolor, multiform, multihued, polychromatic, prismatic, varicolored, versicolor |
| Antonyms: | homogenous, like, same, similar, uniform, unmixed, unvaried |
| Main Entry: | variegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | iridescence |
| Synonyms: | rainbow, spectrum, diversification |
| 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: | spectrum |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | color spectrum |
| Synonyms: | rainbow, chromatic spectrum, hue cycle |
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