daydream

¹day·dream

noun \ˈdā-ˌdrēm\

Definition of DAYDREAM

: a pleasant visionary usually wishful creation of the imagination

— day·dream·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective

Examples of DAYDREAM

1. I drifted off in a daydream during the class.
2. <hoped that one day world peace would be a reality and not just a daydream>

First Known Use of DAYDREAM

1685

Related to DAYDREAM

Synonyms: chimera, conceit, fantasy, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision

Related Words: ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp; brainchild, idea; concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention; envisaging, imaging, visualization; cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia; daymare, nightmare

Near Antonyms: actuality, fact, reality

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Rhymes with DAYDREAM

abeam, agleam, airstream, berseem, beseem, bireme, blaspheme, bloodstream, centime, coal seam, cold cream, crossbeam, downstream, dream team, drill team, egg cream, esteem, extreme, French seam, grapheme, Gulf Stream, hakim, headstream, high beam, hornbeam, I beam, ice cream, inseam, jet stream, kilim, lexeme, live steam, low beam, mainstream, midstream, millime, millstream, moonbeam, morpheme, onstream, phoneme, pipe dream, redeem, regime, rhyme scheme, sealed-beam, sememe, sidestream, slipstream, sour cream, sunbeam, supreme, tag team, Tarim, third-stream, toneme, trireme, unseam, upstream, warp beam, wet dream