Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of dreams; marked by dreams or visionary thought.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of dreams.

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  • adjective poetic dreamy

Etymologies

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dream +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • When I have allowed more flourishing and dreamful prose like this to flow about pacifism people have derided my lapse by suggesting that I need to get up on a cross.

    Archive 2009-03-01 John Storhm 2009

  • When I have allowed more flourishing and dreamful prose like this to flow about pacifism people have derided my lapse by suggesting that I need to get up on a cross.

    Do "movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail?" John Storhm 2009

  • The consciousness accompanying dreamful sleep, the state between waking and sleeping, and deep meditation each exhibits a typical combination of EEG waves.

    Cosmic Symphony: A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness Ervin Laszlo 2010

  • I was lying down there, sleeping the long, deep, dreamful sleep.

    When We Dead Awaken 2008

  • I was lying down there, sleeping the long, deep, dreamful sleep.

    When We Dead Awaken 2008

  • But here's what I mean: how may of you have arrived at a solution, invention, or great idea during dreamful sleep?

    Dr. Michael J. Breus: Sleep... and Get Rich 2008

  • And odd whiles I did lie with mine eyes half to open, and did look very dreamful upward among the dark branches of the tree, as they did show black and pretty against the redness of the shining that came from the sea; for there was stood a great and bright-burning fire-hill in that part of the sea that lay off the shore from me.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And, in verity, as I did lie there so dreamful, it did come to me afresh how wondrous strange was mine adventure; and how that I did lie warm and alive in a Country of red light and smoking seas.

    The Night Land 2007

  • Now you must not think that I was not utter stirred by the wonder of this thing, that we had both a dreamful knowledge of the same matters, of which each had thought none other knew.

    The Night Land 2007

  • Broad-based, timeless and dreamful, Sissy is the Indian.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

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