dreamish

adj

Etymology

From dream + -ish.

  1. inherited from *draumijaną
  2. inherited from drīeman
  3. inherited from dremen
  4. inherited from *draumaz
  5. inherited from *draum
  6. inherited from drēam — “music, joy
  7. inherited from drem
  8. suffixed as dreamish — “dream + ish

Definitions

  1. Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.

    • 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”).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA