dreamish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.
Example Sentences
- "Sometimes a faintish, dizzy feeling flits through my brain, the ground and the mountains begin to quiver. The shout of a Bedouin rouses me from a dreamish stupor, to a keener desire for water. O for a cup of the cold water at my father's door!"
- "Instead of getting drowsier she was getting more awake—with an odd night-time, dreamish kind of wakefulness."
- "The dreamish, arational quality of Baraka's poems is of a piece with his contempt for the confusion of rationality with rationalization (“Bankrupt utopia sez tell me / no utopias”)."
- "It was fatigued thinking, dreamish thinking. She didn't even believe in spirits. But she recalled him standing firm in the waterfall current; she saw him pop up, desert dry, onto the top of Vance's trailer while it bobbed in the river; she saw her bookcase standing upright to cover the hole in her bedroom wall."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more dreamish (comparative)
most dreamish (superlative)