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Definition: Dreamlike |
DreamlikeAdjective1. Resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dreamlike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1836. (references) |
Synonym: DreamlikeSynonym: surreal (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dreamlike |
| English words defined with "dreamlike": daydream ♦ fugue ♦ like ♦ moon ♦ similar, surreal. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Aristophanes | Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay, unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and dreamlike. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | His or her consciousness may be altered, producing a dreamlike experience. (references) | |
For instance, the dreamlike perceptions associated with a complex partial seizure may be misdiagnosed as migraine headaches, which also can cause a dreamlike state. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dreamlike" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dreamlike" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dreamlike | 2 |
dreamlike hochuli | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dreamlike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | كالحلم. (various references) | |
French | comme le rêve. (various references) | |
German | traumhaft (fantastic, heavenly, phantasmagoric). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חלומי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | álomszerû. (various references) | |
Italian | onirico. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamlikedray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | devaneador (dreamy), sonhador (abstracted, castle-builder, day-dreamer, dreamer, dreamy, moony, star-gazer), irreal (airy, artificial, hollow, insubstantial, notional, phantasmal, shadowy, unreal, visional), fantasmagórico (ghostly, phantasmagoric), espectral (ghostly, phantasmal, spectral). (various references) | |
Romanian | de vis, de basm (magic, magical), fantomatic (ghostlike, ghostly, phantom-like, spectral, spookish, vague). (various references) | |
Spanish | de ensueño, como sueño. (various references) | |
Swedish | drömlik (phantasmal). (various references) | |
Turkish | rüya gibi (dreaming, dreamy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | казковий (fairy), примарний (apparitional, dreamy, elfish, elvish, ghastly, ghostly, illusive, illusory, phantasmal, spectral, spooky, visional). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | như một giấc mơ; kỳ diệu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dreamlike": daydreamlike. (additional references) | |
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"Dreamlike" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Demdike. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dreamlike" (pronounced drē"mlī'k) |
| 4 | -m l ī' k | homelike, stemlike, tomblike, wormlike. |
| 3 | -l ī' k | apelike, beaklike, berrylike, businesslike, catlike, childlike, computerlike, doglike, eellike, eyelike, fanlike, fernlike, ghostlike, grasslike, hornlike, knifelike, ladylike, leaflike, lifelike, lookalike, moonlike, mosslike, needlelike, netlike, pincerlike, plantlike, platelike, saltlike, sharklike, snakelike, starlike, statesmanlike, swordlike, toothlike, unsportsmanlike, warlike, winglike, workmanlike. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-k-l-m-r" | |
-1 letter: diemaker, remailed, remedial. | |
-2 letters: armlike, emailed, emerald, leadier, leakier, limeade, mealier. | |
-3 letters: admire, aedile, aeried, ariled, daiker, darkle, dealer, dearie, dekare, delime, demark, derail, dermal, dialer, elmier, laired, lakier, larked, leader, leaked, leaker, lieder, mailed, mailer, marked, marled, mealie, mediae, medial, medlar, meikle, melder, milder, milked, milker, railed, reamed, rediae, redial, relaid, relied. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-k-l-m-r" | |
+3 letters: daydreamlike. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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