PIPE DREAMS Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

pipe dreams

noun

plural of pipe dream

as in dreams

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality opening our own restaurant has long been a pipe dream

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Recent Examples of pipe dreams The Information posited, while noting that since 2020, Meta’s Reality Lab division has lost $87 billion chasing metaverse pipe dreams. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026 Music promoters, both craving the one-upmanship and genuine satisfaction of getting a lucrative band back on a stage, have more money at their disposal than ever before to make their pipe dreams a reality. — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025 The stalker pipe dreams need to stop here. — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025 The idea that renewables alone can power the American economy is nonsense given the current technology, green pipe dreams notwithstanding. — Editorial, Boston Herald, 8 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their dreams.

— Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
So many players go into a World Cup wide-eyed, full of hopes and dreams, and leave it a few weeks later feeling utterly crushed.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 12 July 2026

Definition of dreams

Noun

At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where values and visions of America as inclusive or exclusive are communicated to young people.

— Seth T. Kannarr, Fortune, 13 July 2026
With all the change in Miami Gardens, there are visions of returning to consistent competitiveness for the first time since Dan Marino was Dolphins quarterback and eventually a Super Bowl title, which hasn’t been delivered since 1973.

— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2026

Definition of visions

Noun

Neither of them, however, had any illusions about his prospects.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Because only in intense, rarefied states will our illusions finally drop away, like redundant scaffolding, freeing us to perceive life on a more visceral level.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026

Definition of illusions

Noun

Marina, however, is not looking to the west; her dream is to go further east on a trip fueled by fantasies that her real father was a Russian soldier, if her mother’s secret cache of love letters are anything to go by.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 11 July 2026
Indeed, Brocka insists on escapist fantasies in a world that otherwise offers no escape, which, in my view, is more hopeful than bleak — and, in turn, allows this kind of gritty sensuality to persist in his ever-enduring, luminous cinema.

— Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 10 July 2026

Definition of fantasies

Noun

And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026
One-touch passing, feinting and ripping hard shots into a tattered net, each is super-charged by vivid daydreams of glory on the international stage.

— Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026

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