All daydream synonyms
day·dream
D d noun daydream
- reverie — a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
- wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- phantasm — an apparition or specter.
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
- musing — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- trip — a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock.
- vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
- imagining — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- phantasy — fantasy.
- fancying — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- stargazing — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- contemplation — thoughtful or long consideration or observation
- conceiving — Present participle of conceive.
- head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
- pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).
- fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
verb daydream
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- fantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- conceive — If you cannot conceive of something, you cannot imagine it or believe it.
- moon — Sun Myung [suhn myuhng] /sʌn myʌŋ/ (Show IPA), 1920–2012, Korean religious leader: founder of the Unification Church.
- muse — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- imagine — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
- woolgather — to engage in woolgathering.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- fantasise — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- contemplate — If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
- trip out — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.