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

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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

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

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

Other Latin American artists identified with the Surrealists, including Kati Horna and Leonor Fini, will also appear in the show, which will explore their preoccupation with imagery informed by the movement, such as death, dreaming, masks, and skeletons. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 22 June 2026

All sleep stages matter, but the one that matters most is REM sleep, the dreaming stage. — Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 11 June 2026

Hopefully people will make the connection of the importance of dreaming and planning and affirmations but also the importance of letting things go, like forgiving people. — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026

Some critics’ squeamishness seems aimed at the act of invention itself, the florid dreaming in the face of reality. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Why Vivid Dreams May Actually Mean Deeper Rest One of the more counterintuitive findings of the past year challenges the assumption that intense dreaming equals lighter sleep. — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2026

The ensuing six songs stretch from five to nearly 11 minutes, and Roberts speaks only in terms of unforgettable fires, hurricanes and tidal waves, sleeping in the gutter and dreaming of the stars; the album ends with a closing-credits piano ballad expressing a unified WU LYF theory of everything. — Ian Cohen, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026

Verb

That means dreaming about Black liberation, not as an impossibility but as something that will come to fruition. — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

Keegan made Newcastle dream and pre-season is made for dreaming (just forget today’s result). — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 25 July 2026

And after a season that has teetered between disappointing and disastrous, maybe dreaming is exactly what this franchise needs. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026

That changes what is worth dreaming about, which is perhaps why some of the ideas attracting capital right now seem far-fetched. — Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026

Riffing on late ’50s Broadway productions, the show sees Hoover on his deathbed while dreaming about his life as a musical. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 July 2026

Except the Dodgers weren’t dreaming, and the team hadn’t done much to assuage the concerns with Sasaki. — Liana Handler follow, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026

With summer officially here, there’s no need to keep dreaming about your outdoor oasis when options like this are available right now. — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026

And SpaceX is dreaming even bigger than that. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 June 2026