'Dreaming' definitions:
Definition of 'dreaming'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Dreaming'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dreaming'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Walter Mitty,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought