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adjective

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as in daydreaming

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as in sleeping

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dreaming

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noun

as in rapid eye movement

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dreaming

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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

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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
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 Is an Indian dreaming about the same thing as a guy from Brazil or Nigeria or someone in Southeast Asia? — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026 Connington has spent years dreaming about a field where England’s best players have performed. — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026 Critical to healthy brain functioning is a dreaming state of unconsciousness called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. — Mike McRae 17, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026 The majority of the original Adult Swim show creators were already working at Cartoon Network or its in-house production company Williams Street and had been dreaming about writing their own series for years. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026 Taylor took that passion and never stopped creating, dreaming and believing in his craft. — Kimberly P. Mitchell, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreaming
  1. dreamy
  2. sleeping
  3. rapid eye movement
  4. imagining
  5. absorbed
  6. nodding
  7. doze
  8. envisioning
Adjective
  • The building itself is a marvel, along with the dreamy, bucolic setting, laced with ivy, lemon trees, and cascading stone fountains.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Gash love composing songs whose intersecting lines set the entire mood of the song—jarring, dreamy, or nostalgic—in the style of art-house sampling.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of dreamy
Adjective
  • An autopsy showed that the infant died from asphyxiation secondary to a co-sleeping/overlay event with an unsafe sleeping environment.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026
Definition of sleeping
Noun
  • Greater amounts of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were associated with lower risks of 83 diseases, including dementia, Parkinson’s disease and heart failure, new research has shown.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • About a quarter of your sleep is what’s called REM sleep, short for rapid eye movement.
    — Michael R. Nadorff, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of rapid eye movement
Verb
  • To many working people the world of democratic politics, far away in Westminster or Washington or Paris, existed almost beyond the realm of imagining.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
  • With the help of literature and creative writing, the nonprofit fosters a space for connection, self-expression and imagining a life beyond incarceration.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of imagining
Adjective
  • Unabsorbed calcium leaves the body through stool, and absorbed calcium that isn't needed may be filtered by the kidneys and leave in urine—often within about a day.
    — Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Although the mercury hovered at only 5°, all of us became so absorbed in the rabbit chase that no one noticed numb toes and cold ears.
    — Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of absorbed
Adjective
  • James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
Definition of nodding
Noun
  • Visitors can also follow a small leafy trail to Kelayang Cave, where hanging bats doze after a night of feasting.
    — Claire Turrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Available in pink or blue, the toy—which attaches to crib bars or can be situated near your child’s sleeping space—features a relaxing array of sounds, lights, and music, along with gentle motion, to encourage your darling to doze.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 1 July 2026
Definition of doze
Verb
  • The professor, who is based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, first presented plans for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in 1988, envisioning a vast network of sensors in Antarctic ice that could capture neutrinos.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • In the long term, the startup is envisioning a global network of O-factories that would bring manufacturing closer to the major markets of fashion brands.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of envisioning

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“Dreaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreaming. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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