daydreamlike

adjective

Definition of daydreamlikenext
as in surreal

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreamlike
  1. surreal
  2. illusory
  3. deceptive
  4. fictional
  5. hallucinatory
  6. fictitious
  7. imaginary
  8. fanciful
Adjective
  • With luminous, surreal animals, EMA challenges human folly in eerie silence.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Amorim acted on 33 minutes in what became a brutal, surreal spectacle.
    Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of surreal
Adjective
  • The developers have also added new skills related to the dodge roll, such as the ability to leave behind an illusory copy of your character to act as a decoy, which make the new mechanic feel essential to the modernized gameplay the sequel implements.
    Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Instead of enjoying my time with them and living in the moment, I was preoccupied with trying to curate an illusory holiday vibe.
    Melissa Jean-Baptiste, refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of illusory
Adjective
  • The Franklin County and River Valley Coalition recently accused officials of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and a division of the building authority of being deceptive and called for an investigation.
    Alex Golden, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Penelope in the Odyssey says that dreams that pass through the gate of ivory are deceptive, while those that pass through the gate of horn are real.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of deceptive
Adjective
  • Like their fictional counterparts, Taylor-Joy and Delevingne often hit the town together, including a 2023 girls’ night out that included Taylor Swift, Zoë Kravitz, and Golden Globe double nominee Selena Gomez.
    EW.com, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Winslet was nominated for best performance by a female actor in a drama for her role as a photojournalist in Lee and best performance by a female actor in a limited anthology series for television as a fictional dictator in The Regime.
    Rachel Flynn, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of fictional
Adjective
  • In Sewing Machine, 2000, the mechanism’s operator—this time male—seems not to be sewing at all, but conducting some kind of shamanistic ritual that sends the other figures populating the painting’s hallucinatory space into their own incommensurable realms of reverie.
    Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The actors and filmmaker discuss wrapping William S. Burroughs' life into the hallucinatory dream sequence.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of hallucinatory
Adjective
  • However, that didn’t stop the fictitious school district from announcing closings as the North Texas deals with freezing rain and snow.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Much like the fictitious film, Moss’s relationship with his youngest child’s mother has been tumultuous.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of fictitious
Adjective
  • The feature, from experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin, is an absurdist comedy set in an imaginary Canada where French and Farsi are the country’s two official languages.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Since Southern California was located somewhere near 6:30 on this imaginary clock face, the result was winds traveling from east to west — the opposite of their normal direction.
    Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of imaginary
Adjective
  • The wintertime spectacle, featuring a variety of fanciful ice formations, has been held in previous locations in the Twin Cities, but this is its first year at the state fairgrounds.
    John Autey, Twin Cities, 5 Jan. 2025
  • These fanciful thought experiments have inspired new algorithms and helped researchers map the landscape of computation.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of fanciful
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