Dreamy — may refer to: Dreamy (Beat Happening album) Dreamy (Sarah Vaughan album) a jazz song by Erroll Garner. Later recorded by Sarah Vaughan (for the album above), Shirley Horn (for 1996 album Loving You), etc. a song by Henry Mancini, for The Return… … Wikipedia
dreamy — [drēm′ē] adj. dreamier, dreamiest 1. filled with dreams 2. fond of daydreaming; given to reverie; visionary; impractical 3. like something in a dream; not sharply defined; misty, vague, etc. 4. having a soft, soothing quality [dreamy music ] ☆ 5 … English World dictionary
dreamy — index delusive, oblivious, pensive, quixotic Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
dreamy — 1560s, full of dreams, from DREAM (Cf. dream) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning perfect, ideal, attested from 1941, Amer.Eng. teen slang. Cf. DREAMBOAT (Cf. dreamboat) romantically desirable person; dream girl (1903) … Etymology dictionary
dreamy — [adj] illusory, romantic abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, introvertive, lulling, marvelous, misty, musing,… … New thesaurus
dreamy — ► ADJECTIVE (dreamier, dreamiest) 1) dreamlike; pleasantly distracting or unreal. 2) given to daydreaming. DERIVATIVES dreamily adverb dreaminess noun … English terms dictionary
dreamy — [[t]dri͟ːmi[/t]] dreamier, dreamiest 1) ADJ GRADED If you say that someone has a dreamy expression, you mean that they are not paying attention to things around them and look as if they are thinking about something pleasant. His face assumed a… … English dictionary
dreamy — adjective (dreamier; est) Date: 1567 1. a. full of dreams < a dreamy night s sleep > b. pleasantly abstracted from immediate reality 2. given to dreaming or fantasy … New Collegiate Dictionary
dreamy — adjective 1 someone who is dreamy has a good imagination but is not very practical: a bright, but dreamy child 2 looking as though you are thinking about something pleasant rather than things happening around you: a dreamy look 3 a dreamy sight,… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
dreamy — dream|y [ˈdri:mi] adj 1.) looking as though you are thinking about something pleasant rather than what is happening around you ▪ a dreamy smile 2.) someone who is dreamy has a good imagination but is not very practical ▪ He was an artist, not… … Dictionary of contemporary English
