Word Study
dreamy
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dreamy, adj. (dreamier, dreamiest)
1 given to day-dreaming; fanciful; unpractical.
2 dreamlike; vague; misty.
3 colloq. delightful; marvellous.
4 poet. full of dreams.
1 given to day-dreaming; fanciful; unpractical.
2 dreamlike; vague; misty.
3 colloq. delightful; marvellous.
4 poet. full of dreams.
Derivative
dreamily adv. dreaminess n.
THESAURUS
dreamy
Barmecidal, Barmecide, absent, absent-minded, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, airy, anesthetized, apparent, apparitional, appeasing, astral, autistic, bemused, calming, castle-building, cataleptic, charmed, chimeric, comatose, cool, cradling, dandy, daydreaming, daydreamy, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, divine, doped, dozy, dreamful, dreaming, dreamlike, dreamy-eyed, dreamy-souled, drowsing, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, ecstatic, elsewhere, enchanted, engrossed, entranced, erroneous, faint, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, faraway, gentle, gentling, glorious, groovy, half asleep, half-awake, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hushing, idealistic, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in a reverie, in a stupor, in a trance, in the clouds, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, languid, lazy, lethargic, lost, lost in thought, lulling, meditative, misleading, misty, mollifying, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, neat, nifty, nodding, oblivious, occupied, oscitant, ostensible, otherworldly, out of it, pacifying, peaceable, peaceful, peachy, pensive, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, quiet, quietening, rapt, relaxing, restful, rocking, romantic, sedated, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somewhere else, somnolent, soothful, soothing, soporific, specious, spectral, spellbound, spelled, stargazing, stilling, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, super, supposititious, taken up, thoughtful, tranced, tranquil, tranquilizing, transported, unactual, unconscious, undefined, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, unworldly, vague, visionary, whimsical, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, yawning, yawnyROGET THESAURUS
dreamy
Unsubstantiality
N unsubstantiality, insubstantiality, nothingness, nihility, no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing, nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody, never a one, ne'er a one, no such thing, none in the world, nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth, not a particle, all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense, matter of no importance, matter of no consequence, thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter, nominis umbra, nonentity, flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil, shadow, phantom, dream, ignis fatuus, such stuff as dreams are made of, air, thin air, vapor, bubble, baseless fabric of a vision, mockery, hollowness, blank, void, inanity, fool's paradise, unsubstantial, baseless, groundless, ungrounded, without foundation, having no foundation, visionary, immaterial, spectral, dreamy, shadowy, ethereal, airy, cloud built, cloud formed, gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal, vacant, vacuous, empty, eviscerated, blank, hollow, nominal, null, inane, there's nothing in it, an ocean of dreams without a sound.Inactivity
N inactivity, inaction, inertness, obstinacy, lull, quiescence, rust, rustiness, idleness, remissness, sloth, indolence, indiligence, dawdling, ergophobia, otiosity, dullness, languor, segnity, segnitude, lentor, sluggishness, procrastination, torpor, torpidity, torpescence, stupor, somnolence, drowsiness, nodding, oscitation, oscitancy, pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy, statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids, sleep, slumber, sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep, Morpheus, Somnus, coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore, hypnology, dull work, pottering, relaxation, Castle of Indolence, lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic, torpedo, idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus, do- little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner, afternoon farmer, truant, bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone, lubber, lubbard, slow coach (slow, ), opium eater, lotus eater, slug, lag, sluggard, slugabed, slumberer, dormouse, marmot, waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus, inactive, motionless, unoccupied, unbusied, indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish, exanimate, soulless, listless, drony, dronish, lazy as Ludlam's dog, dilatory, laggard, lagging, slow, rusty, flagging, lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle, pottering, shilly-shally, sleeping asleep, fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep, in a sound sleep, sound as a top, dormant, comatose, in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus, sleepy, sleepful, dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical, somnifacient, statuvolent, statuvolic, heavy, heavy with sleep, napping, somnific, somniferous, soporous, soporific, soporiferous, hypnotic, balmy, dreamy, unawakened, unawakened, sedative, inactively, at leisure, the eyes begin to draw straws, bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease, better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay, idly busy rolls their world away, the mystery of folded sleep, the timely dew of sleep, thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep, tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.Inattention
N inattention, inconsideration, inconsiderateness, oversight, inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard, supineness, etourderie, want of thought, heedlessness, insouciance, abstraction, absence of mind, absorption of mind, preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction, inattentive, unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning, inadvertent, mindless, regardless, respectless, listless, blind, deaf, bird-witted, hand over head, cursory, percursory, giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained, unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele, offhand, dizzy, muzzy, brainsick, giddy, giddy as a goose, wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying, heedless, careless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, absent, abstracted, distrait, absentminded, lost, lost in thought, wrapped in thought, rapt, in the clouds, bemused, dreaming on other things, musing on other things, preoccupied, engrossed, daydreaming, in a reverie, off one's guard, napping, dreamy, caught napping, disconcerted, distracted, put out, inattentively, inadvertently, absent-mindedly, per incuriam, sub silentio, Int, stand at ease, stand easy!, the attention wanders, one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting, it never entered into one's head, the mind running on other things, one's thoughts being elsewhere, had it been a bear it would have bitten you.For further exploring for "dreamy" in Webster Dictionary Online