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English
Etymology
From dream + -like.
Adjective
dreamlike (comparative more dreamlike, superlative most dreamlike)
- Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.
- Synonyms: dreamish, dreamy, oneiric
Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss.
1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi, “Diana's Mirror,” as it was called by the ancients.
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:Even when the legend is of an actual historical personage, the deeds of victory are rendered, not in lifelike, but in dreamlike figurations; for the point is not that such-and-such was done on earth; the point is that, before such-and-such could be done on earth, this other, more important, primary thing had to be brought to pass within the labyrinth that we all know and visit in our dreams.
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Translations
like something from a dream
- Azerbaijani: xəyali (az)
- Bulgarian: приказен (bg) (prikazen), фантастичен (bg) (fantastičen), мечтателен (bg) (mečtatelen)
- Czech: snový
- Danish: drømmeagtig
- Dutch: droomachtig (nl)
- Esperanto: reva (eo)
- Finnish: unenomainen, haaveenomainen
- French: onirique (fr) m or f, rêveur (fr)
- German: traumähnlich, träumerisch, versonnen (de), verträumt (de), traumhaft
- Greek: ονειρικός (el) m (oneirikós)
- Ancient: ὀνειρώδης (oneirṓdēs)
- Hungarian: álomszerű (hu)
- Icelandic: draumkenndur, draumi líkur, dreymandi (is)
- Irish: aislingeach
- Japanese: 夢幻的 (ja) (むげんてき, mugenteki)
- Maori: titoro, whakamoemoeā
- Polish: oniryczny m
- Romanian: de vis, oniric (ro)
- Russian: мечта́тельный (ru) (mečtátelʹnyj), (please verify) онири́ческий (oniríčeskij)
- Spanish: onírico (es)
- Swedish: drömlik (sv)
- Turkish: dalgın (tr), hayalperest (tr), rüya dolu, rüya gibi (tr), masalsı
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