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'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.
China Mieville

Meaning of "dreamlike" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DREAMLIKE

dreamlike  [ˈdriːmˌlaɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DREAMLIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dreamlike is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DREAMLIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dreamlike

Dream

Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. Dreams mainly occur in the rapid-eye movement stage of sleep—when brain activity is high and resembles that of being awake. REM sleep is revealed by continuous movements of the eyes during sleep. At times, dreams may occur during other stages of sleep. However, these dreams tend to be much less vivid or memorable. The length of a dream can vary; they may last for a few seconds, or approximately 20–30 minutes. People are more likely to remember the dream if they are awakened during the REM phase. The average person has three to five dreams per night, but some may have up to seven dreams in one night. The dreams tend to last longer as the night progresses. During a full eight-hour night sleep, most dreams occur in the typical two hours of REM.

Definition of dreamlike in the English dictionary

The definition of dreamlike in the dictionary is resembling a dream; strange.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DREAMLIKE


armlike
ˈɑːmˌlaɪk
balm-like
ˈbɑːmˌlaɪk
beamlike
ˈbiːmˌlaɪk
cormlike
ˈkɔːmˌlaɪk
creamlike
ˈkriːmˌlaɪk
daydreamlike
ˈdeɪdriːmˌlaɪk
fumelike
ˈfjuːmˌlaɪk
gamelike
ˈɡeɪmˌlaɪk
gemlike
ˈdʒɛmˌlaɪk
germ-like
ˈdʒɜːmˌlaɪk
glumelike
ˈɡluːmˌlaɪk
gumlike
ˈɡʌmˌlaɪk
homelike
ˈhəʊmˌlaɪk
hymnlike
ˈhɪmˌlaɪk
palmlike
ˈpɑːmˌlaɪk
phantomlike
ˈfæntəmˌlaɪk
plumelike
ˈpluːmˌlaɪk
seamlike
ˈsiːmˌlaɪk
streamlike
ˈstriːmˌlaɪk
tomblike
ˈtuːmˌlaɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DREAMLIKE

dreamboat
dreamer
dreamery
dreamful
dreamfully
dreamfulness
dreamhole
dreamier
dreamiest
dreamily
dreaminess
dreaming
dreamingly
dreamland
dreamless
dreamlessly
dreamlessness
dreamt
Dreamtime
dreamy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DREAMLIKE

alike
childlike
dislike
drumlike
feel like
foamlike
human-like
ladylike
lifelike
like
like-for-like
lookalike
plumlike
scumlike
stemlike
sunlike
the like
there´s nothing like
unlike
wormlike

Synonyms and antonyms of dreamlike in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DREAMLIKE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dreamlike» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dreamlike

Translation of «dreamlike» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DREAMLIKE

Find out the translation of dreamlike to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dreamlike from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dreamlike» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

如梦如幻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de ensueño
570 millions of speakers

English

dreamlike
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dreamlike
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

منام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сказочный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sonho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dreamlike
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

onirique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mimpi seperti itu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

traumhaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

夢のような
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seneng banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mơ tưởng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கனவுபோன்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वप्ने सारखा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

rüya gibi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

onirico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zjawiskowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

казковий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de vis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ονειρική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

droom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drömlik
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drømmeaktig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dreamlike

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DREAMLIKE»

The term «dreamlike» is regularly used and occupies the 66.505 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DREAMLIKE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dreamlike» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dreamlike» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dreamlike

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7 QUOTES WITH «DREAMLIKE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dreamlike.
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Christopher Alexander
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
2
David Chase
There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.
3
Philipp Meyer
I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.
4
China Mieville
'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.
5
China Mieville
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
6
Henry Rollins
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
7
Immanuel Velikovsky
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREAMLIKE»

Discover the use of dreamlike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dreamlike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Popular Science
PROVIDE. DREAMLIKE. SETTINGS. FOR. MOVIE. FANTASIES. Specially constructed gliders, too, carry mechanized equipment. Here a jeep. A mist, sprayed from an air gun, adds to the illusion of unreality TO FLOOD a movie set with clouds, ...
2
Issues in Neurology and Neuroscience: 2011 Edition
Hospital,. Paris: Dreamlike. Mentations. During. Sleepwalking. and. Sleep. Terrors. in. Adults. “Sleep terrors and sleepwalking are described as arousals from slow wave sleep with no or poor mental recollection. To characterize the mental ...
‎2012
3
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
Why. Are. Dreams. Dreamlike? Y. ou find yourself at a banquet table. You feel disaffected because the people surrounding you are speaking a language you do not understand. Suddenly, you feel pressure on your foot—beneath the table,  ...
Robert M. Sapolsky, 2006
4
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European ...
It describes an altered consciousness rather than a dulled one, a consciousness in which reality dissipates into the dreamlike but in which the dreamlike possesses the ultimate ability to produce a coherent vision of a new reality. In its reality ...
Hermann Broch, Michael P. Steinberg, 1984
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Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine Mental Health Through ...
Genuine Mental Health Through Awakened Presence Lisa Dale Miller. The dreamlike Buddha came to dreamlike beings. To show them the dreamlike path to dreamlike enlightenment. The dreamlike Buddha came to dreamlike beings.
Lisa Dale Miller, 2014
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Mind Beyond Death
... existing subject that looks out on an illusory world. Rather, there is a dreamlike mind that perceives a dreamlike world: a dreamlike eye consciousness that sees dreamlike forms; a dreamlike ear consciousness that hears dreamlike sounds, ...
Dzogchen Ponlop, 2008
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NCLEX-RN Questions and Answers Made Incredibly Easy!
A client with depersonalization disorder spends much of her day in a dreamlike state during which she ignores personal care needs. Which of the following nursing diagnoses is most appropriate for this client? 1. Disturbed thought processes ...
‎2005
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Sacred Ground: Jamgon Kongtrul on Pilgrimage and Sacred ...
Rather, Buddhism at this stage idealizes the inseparable union of compassion and emptiness, epitomized by dreamlike bodhisattvas who make dreamlike vows to work for all dreamlike sentient beings' dreamlike liberation from the dreamlike  ...
Ngawang Zangpo, 2001
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Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China
Dreamlike Memories from the Studio of Contentment is his best-known collection, containing short, epigraphic narratives of the travels of his youth as well as vignettes of personalities, customs, and various cultural pursuits. His style continued ...
‎1994
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All is Never Said: The Narrative of Odette Harper Hines
And there's something dreamlike about that period, that year and a half in my life, from May of 'forty-nine to December 1950. Or "nightmarish," maybe, is a better word. The dream came to me in New York, in the spring of 1949 in New York.
Judith Rollins, Odette Harper Hines, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DREAMLIKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dreamlike is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stunning World Cup final was dreamlike for many in attendance
Gig Harbor senior Mia Ostergren figures to be a vital part of the Tides soccer team in the fall. DEAN J. KOEPFLER — Staff photographer |Buy ... «Peninsula Gateway, Jul 15»
2
Is Jason Derulo human after all?
Despite all of the flesh and sweat, there's something dreamlike about “Want To Want Me.” Yes, “dreamlike” is a word often used to describe ... «Stars and Stripes, Jul 15»
3
Google is creating nightmares out of your digital memories
... that takes patterns found in images, repeats them, and returns with its wonderfully horrifying dreamlike interpretation of the original image. «Geek, Jul 15»
4
Hannibal season 3 episode 5 review: Contorno
... for Pan's Labyrinth and whose artistry is clearly present in the dreamlike landscapes through which Will and Chiyo's train is moving. «Den Of Geek, Jul 15»
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Lemma review
... that create a dreamlike look. I often looked for high ground, just to soak in all the gorgeous vistas. And when the sparse, evocative soundtrack ... «PC Gamer, Jul 15»
6
Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, Cody Simpson & Tinashe Star in Ralph …
The budding model also shrugs off her denim jacket and piles on the necklaces and a panama hat in the shot, creating a dreamlike moment. «E! Online, Jul 15»
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OFF RADAR: 'The Hero Enkidu: An Epic'
... the city, Enkidu grew up among wild animals, and they help each other through painful civilizing processes — all told in dreamlike adventure. «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, Jul 15»
8
From rugby backline to medal for Tukua at powerlifting world champs
The 24 hour flight wasn't too bad, but the disorienting midnight sun - where everything is bathed in a dreamlike light - was a killer. He opened ... «The Dominion Post, Jul 15»
9
The Fantasticks Doesn't Quite Live Up to Its Billing
Director Maggie Ryan has assembled a solid cast, and the show's rhyming dialogue still has a dreamlike quality that sparks — but this ... «Riverfront Times, Jul 15»
10
A little midsummer magic: NapaShakes presents Shakespeare's …
... of this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike surface. «Napa Valley Register, Jul 15»

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