dreaming

3 definitions found

dreaming - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed (dr[=e]md) or
     Dreamt (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.] [Cf. AS.
     dr[=e]man, dr[=y]man, to rejoice. See Dream, n.]
     1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of
        sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of;
        as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
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     2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to
        anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have
        a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
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              Here may we sit and dream
              Over the heavenly theme.              --Keble.
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              They dream on in a constant course of reading, but
              not digesting.                        --Locke.
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dreaming - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dreaming
      n 1: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in
           a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dream,
           dreaming]
      2: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
         sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dream,
         dreaming]

dreaming - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "dreaming":
     Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded,
     absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness,
     abstraction, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building,
     charmed, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy,
     depth of thought, dream, dreamery, dreamful, dreamfulness,
     dreaminess, dreamlike, dreamlikeness, dreamy, dreamy-eyed,
     dreamy-souled, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, enchanted, engrossed,
     engrossment, entranced, fantasy, fantasying, faraway,
     fit of abstraction, half-awake, in a reverie, in a trance,
     in the clouds, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning,
     moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy,
     napping, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pensiveness, pipe dream,
     pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, reverie,
     somewhere else, spellbound, spelled, stargazing, study, taken up,
     trance, tranced, transported, unconscious, woolgathering,
     wrapped in thought