英和和英

形容詞

dreamish (comparative more dreamish, superlative most dreamish)

1. Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.
   • 1861, Benjamin Bausman, Sinai and Zion; Or, A Pilgrimage through the Wilderness to the Land of Promise, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, chapter 6, 119:

     Sometimes a faintish, dizzy feeling flits through my brain, the ground and the mountains begin to quiver. The shout of a Bedouin rouses me from a dreamish stupor, to a keener desire for water. O for a cup of the cold water at my father's door!

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 9,

     Instead of getting drowsier she was getting more awake—with an odd night-time, dreamish kind of wakefulness.

   • 1993, Nathaniel Mackey, Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521444535, chapter 2, 41:

     The dreamish, arational quality of Baraka's poems is of a piece with his contempt for the confusion of rationality with rationalization (“Bankrupt utopia sez tell me / no utopias”).

   • 2013, Erin Healy, Afloat, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, ISBN 9781401685522, chapter 20, 160:

     It was fatigued thinking, dreamish thinking. She didn't even believe in spirits. But she recalled him standing firm in the waterfall current; she saw him pop up, desert dry, onto the top of Vance's trailer while it bobbed in the river; she saw her bookcase standing upright to cover the hole in her bedroom wall.

同意語

• dreamlike
• dreamy
• oneiric

アナグラム

• Draheims, Hermidas, misheard, semihard