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  • adjective resembling a dream; vague or fantastic.

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  • adjective Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.

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  • adjective resembling a dream

Etymologies

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dream +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Photographer, Stephanie De Rouge, captures the entire length of Broadway in dreamlike overlapping images.

    Blended Views, Block by Block The Nag 2009

  • David Mellon's mysterious paintings and drawings have been described as dreamlike, creepy and bursting with humanity.

    Michael Sigman: Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 2) 2009

  • David Mellon's mysterious paintings and drawings have been described as dreamlike, creepy and bursting with humanity.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • Lang directs the 1956 film with a kind of dreamlike detachment, keeping the characters in close proximity to one another even as they never really establish meaningful contact, even when intimate.

    Miscellaneous Debris, September Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews 2009

  • In Ghost in Love, Carroll does this again, but even moreso, using a kind of dreamlike fluidity to constantly rewrite the rules of his world and its magic as evil and good tear apart the lives of Ben, German, Pilot and Ling and the people around them.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Mr. Sher promised a "dreamlike" production, and once in a while, generically "surreal" things happen.

    The Real Offenbach 2009

  • Mr. Sher promised a "dreamlike" production, and once in a while, generically "surreal" things happen.

    The Real Offenbach 2009

  • Despite Ebert's praise of the "dreamlike" qualities of black-and-white, it cannot show the full range of our dreams.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Kylopod 2008

  • Despite Ebert's praise of the "dreamlike" qualities of black-and-white, it cannot show the full range of our dreams.

    Why I love color (but not colorization) Kylopod 2008

  • Finally, it was time to go—Parker and I had had a memorable experience, a kind of dreamlike twenty-four hours—being with the president and first lady is very special.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

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