fever-dreamlike
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fever dream.
Example Sentences
- "Stuart Gordon, whose debut, RE-ANIMATOR, was the sleeper horror hit of 1985, returned again to the fever-dreamlike stories of H.P. Lovecraft for his source in FROM BEYOND."
- "[T]he dominant tone is barely suppressed hysteria, complemented perfectly by Philip Glass’s insistent, fever-dreamlike score."
- "Or was it his nerves at all? Elliot thought back, despite himself, to the fever-dreamlike trudge through the Hockomock, to the resting place of the Ujaraanni, to the swamp’s vague corruption and the almost desperate efforts of nature itself to purge the intrusion."
Etymology
From fever dream + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fever-dreamlike (comparative)
most fever-dreamlike (superlative)