Synonyms of dreaming

dreaming 1 of 3

adjective

1

as in daydreaming

Related Words

• daydreaming
• dreamy
• absorbed
• engrossed
• pensive
• intent
• rapt
• preoccupied
• faraway
• absent
• unaware
• distracted
• unconscious
• abstracted
• oblivious
• absentminded
• forgetting
• unmindful
• inattentive
• heedless
• unthinking
• unknowing
• unwitting
• bewildered
• dazed
• vacant
• forgetful
• unwary
• clueless
• muddled
• foggy
• unheeding
• confused
• bemused
• unperceptive
• hazy
• unfocused
• scatterbrained
• insensible
• befuddled
• flighty
• befogged
• birdbrained

Dissimilar Words

• alert
• conscious
• aware
• engaged
• alive
• wary
• wide-awake
• observing
• mindful
• watchful
• vigilant
• attentive
• sharp
• observant
• open-eyed
• heedful
• heads-up
• clearheaded

2

as in sleeping

Related Words

• sleeping
• nodding
• drowsy
• resting
• slumberous
• hypnotized
• somnolent
• sleepy
• napping
• dormant
• asleep
• dozing
• comatose
• reposing
• mesmerized
• slumbering
• sleepwalking
• semiconscious
• somnambulant

Dissimilar Words

• awake
• sleepless
• aware
• conscious
• wakeful
• wide-awake
• sleepless
• up
• aroused
• awakened
• revived
• wakened
• roused
• astir
• reawakened

dreaming

2 of 3

noun

as in rapid eye movement

Related Words

• rapid eye movement
• doze
• nap
• resting
• drowse
• dozing
• oversleeping
• catnap
• slumber
• slumbering
• siesta
• napping
• snoozing
• forty winks
• snooze
• rest
• wink
• sleep
• bed
• shut-eye
• catnapping
• repose
• z's

Dissimilar Words

• consciousness
• wake
• wakefulness
• insomnia
• sleeplessness

dreaming

3 of 3

verb

present participle of dream

as in imagining

to form a mental picture of

I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imagining
• envisioning
• seeing
• picturing
• fantasizing
• visualizing
• conceiving
• envisaging
• visioning
• fancying
• contemplating
• featuring
• fantasying
• planning
• daydreaming
• ideating
• conjuring (up)
• imaging
• conceiting
• hallucinating
• pondering
• reflecting
• stargazing
• reliving
• musing
• reminiscing
• ruminating
• meditating
• inventing
• foreseeing
• projecting
• concocting
• manufacturing
• re-creating
• prefiguring
• fabricating
• making up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dreaming

Noun

Napoleon Bonaparte, having already lost half a million soldiers in Russia, was still an emperor dreaming of new conquests. — Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026

Players step into the role of Shade, a lone racer dreaming of glory and revenge. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Julius could not always bear the weight of her dreaming and her drawing. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

Today, the tiki scene is thriving, a hub for craft cocktails but also a reflection of our city’s penchant for dreaming and escapism. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

Many of the techniques that had been used in previous studies to trigger lucid dreaming involved weeks of training for the participants ahead of time. — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 18 Aug. 2026

His dreaming moved us forward, brought artists out of the shadows, rewarded us with weird, challenging, meaningful, exciting art. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026

When the pair meet as children, Cricket is a budding visual artist who spends his days drawing and dreaming; Olympia seeks to cultivate Cricket’s talents while harboring art-world ambitions of her own. — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026

Yet once the hurt from the Argentina defeat eases, Prime Minister Burnham will have a particularly good reason to hope that the dreaming finally pays off. — Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026

Verb

Early voting turnout has Democrats dreaming big about the General Assembly, which Republicans have controlled for more than a decade. — Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2026

For now, the evolutionary history of dreaming remains tantalizingly unfinished. — New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026

What could somebody who wasn’t even meant to be in this world yet possibly be dreaming about? — Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026

Bart cries wolf the morning after dreaming about dying in a bus crash, but no one believes him. — Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026

But on Thursday night, Musk showed that there are advantages to dreaming big. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026

Mage, who grew up in France, went from California dreaming to living the dream. — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026

The club, the fans and the media let themselves get carried away dreaming about the possibilities of club president Florentino Perez’s latest galacticos project. — Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2026

Cyclovia is about people who have turned a simple machine into a way of surviving, celebrating and dreaming, and John’s whole body of work is about pulling Latin stories out of the margins and into the centre of the culture. — Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026