dream up

Questions about dream up

What does dream up mean?

dream up means "devise or invent".

What is another word for dream up?

Close synonyms include think up, think of, hatch, concoct. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dream up a common word?

dream up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.