dreaming

1. 1.

   imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

   “he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality”

   Synonymsdream

   Broaderimagination

   Narrowerreveriewoolgathering
2. 2.

   a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

   “I had a dream about you last night”

   Synonymsdream

   Broaderimagination

   Narrowernightmarewet dream

   Part ofsleeping

Other forms of dreaming

plural

dreamings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dreaming

What does dreaming mean?

dreaming means "imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dreaming?

dreaming has 2 syllables: drea-ming. The stress falls on "drea". In IPA it is /ˈdɹimɪŋ/.

What is another word for dreaming?

Close synonyms include dream, dream. 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 dreaming a common word?

dreaming is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dreaming?

1 word rhymes with dreaming. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.