Word Meanings - DAYDREAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DAYDREAM)

• Reverie
• Dream
• daydream
• trance
• vision
• phantasy
• ideality
• woolgathering
• wandering
• musing

Related words: (words related to DAYDREAM)

• MUSQUAW
  The American black bear. See Bear.
• PHANTASY
  See FANCY
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• MUSCULOSPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
• MUSCAT
  A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• MUSTELINE
  Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidæ, or the weasels and martens.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• MUSCLING
  Exhibition or representation of the muscles. A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.
• MUSTY
  1. Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey. 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• MUSICAL
  1. Music. To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser. 2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party.
• MUSHROOM-HEADED
  Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• MUSKRAT
  A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent . It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• MUSTAIBA
  A close-grained, neavy wood of a brownish color, brought from Brazil, and used in turning, for making the handles of tools, and the like. MaElrath.
• MUSLIN
  A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric. -- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. See Delaine. (more
• MUSKETEER
  A soldier armed with a musket.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• CHIASMUS
  An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence; thus, If e'er to bless thy sons My voice or hands deny, These hands let useful skill forsake, This voice in silence die. Dwight.
• MUSCIFORM
  Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the