Synonyms of pipe dreams

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dreams
• visions
• illusions
• fantasies
• daydreams
• castles in the air
• ideas
• castles in Spain
• delusions
• unrealities
• chimeras
• hallucinations
• nightmares
• conceits
• phantasms
• fancies
• figments
• mirages
• nonentities
• will-o'-the-wisps
• ignes fatui
• fictions
• cloudlands
• concoctions
• inventions
• visualizations
• fabrications
• cloud-cuckoo-lands
• utopias
• brainchildren
• fables
• daymares
• Shangri-las

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pipe dreams

As the league and union continue amassing their respective war chests for the next CBA four-to-five years down the road, the last thing the league needs to do publicly is depict pipe dreams as front-burner issues. — Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Arendt then cited Wilhelm Marr’s Sieg des Judentums über das Germanentum (The Victory of Judaism over Teutonism, 1869), thus lining up all the antisemitic pipe dreams that came close to fulfillment. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

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