DAYDREAMER Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

daydreamer

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Recent Examples of daydreamer John Beltran is Detroit techno’s foremost daydreamer. — Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026 The chronic daydreamer can easily identify with Catherine’s near-delusional longing for something to happen beyond the courtships and evenings around the pianoforte that seem to make up the better part of her future. — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, based on James Thurber’s 1939 short story, starred Ben Stiller in the role of the daydreamer made famous by Danny Kaye in the 1947 Samuel Goldwyn original. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025 As custom, the season will follow a brand new member of the Bridgerton family on their quest to find love, this time chronicling the charming and equally complex relationship between artsy daydreamer Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and pragmatic maid Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha). — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025

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But even as Moon landings, space shuttles, and reusable rockets seized the headlines, Link, along with a stubborn handful of engineers, explorers, and flat-out dreamers, kept plumbing the ocean instead.

— Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
For Rolling Stone’s Last Word column, Midler talked about the gigs, auditions, and storied feuds that took her from dreamer to entertainment legend.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2026

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The optimists in our midst are hoping for a big improvement on that and that one or both of them will land in the nine-to-16 range, but more than half of y’all are thinking bottom half of the league, and that’s more defensible.

— Josh Kendall, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Finally, of course, there are the ambitious optimists, people betting that fresh leadership will shake CNN out of it slumber (and give themselves a high-profile role to help achieve those goals).

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

Definition of optimist

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But Veda is no idealist out to end wars or reject her parents’ materialism.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Independent bookselling, rarely a way to get rich, is a meeting ground for idealists — for young people with a sense of mission, retirees embarking on a new life or middle-aged people no longer satisfied with their careers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 May 2026

Definition of idealist

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The versatility, the intelligence, the playmaking and that ineffable ability to win — the Frenchman was a basketball romantic’s dream.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
Now these two romantics, who remain at large, are being looked for by the Leicestershire Police.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026

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