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Synonyms of daydream in English:

daydream


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See Spanish definition of ensueño

noun

1‘she was lost in a daydream’

SYNONYMS
reverie, trance, fantasy, vision, fancy, hallucination, musing, brown study, imagining
inattention, inattentiveness, wool-gathering, preoccupation, brooding, obliviousness, engrossment, absorption, self-absorption, absent-mindedness, absence of mind, staring into space, abstraction, lack of concentration, lack of application
Scottish dwam
humorous blonde moment
ANTONYMS

concentration

2‘the thought of living in a mews cottage had been one of her daydreams’

SYNONYMS
dream, pipe dream, fantasy, figment of the imagination, unrealizable dream, castle in the air, castle in Spain
wishful thinking
fond hopes, wishes
informal pie in the sky

verb

1‘stop daydreaming and pay attention’

SYNONYMS
dream, muse, be lost in thought, be in a brown study, stare into space, hallucinate
fantasize, indulge in fantasy, indulge in fancy, indulge in wool-gathering, be in cloud cuckoo land, be unrealistic, build castles in the air, build castles in Spain
ANTONYMS

concentrate, focus