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pipe dream

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pipe dream

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

opening our own restaurant has long been a pipe dream

Synonyms of pipe dream

chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), unreality, vision

Words Related to pipe dream

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare

Phrases Synonymous with pipe dream

castle in Spain, castle in the air

Near Antonyms of pipe dream

actuality, fact, reality

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