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dreamlike

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈdɹimlaɪk/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- 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.

  1. Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.

    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.