dreamlike
/ˈdɹimlaɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.
Example Sentences
- "Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss."
- "The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi, “Diana's Mirror,” as it was called by the ancients."
- "Even when the legend is of an actual historical personage, the deeds of victory are rendered, not in lifelike, but in dreamlike figurations; for the point is not that such-and-such was done on earth; the point is that, before such-and-such could be done on earth, this other, more important, primary thing had to be brought to pass within the labyrinth that we all know and visit in our dreams."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Germanic *draumaz Proto-West Germanic *draum Old English drēam Middle English drem English dream Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English dreamlike From dream + -like.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɹimlaɪk/
Inflected Forms
more dreamlike (comparative)
most dreamlike (superlative)