Dreamish
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.
"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!"
Example
More examples"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!"
Etymology
From dream + -ish.
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