dreamy

1. 1.

   dreamy in mood or nature

   “a woolgathering moment”

   Synonymsmoonywoolgathering

   Similarinattentive
2. 2.

   lacking spirit or liveliness

   “a lackadaisical attempt”

   “a languid mood”

   “a languid wave of the hand”

   “a hot languorous afternoon”

   Synonymslackadaisicallanguidlanguorous

   Similarlethargic

Other forms of dreamy

comparative or superlative

dreamier

comparative or superlative

dreamiest

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 dreamy

What does dreamy mean?

dreamy means "dreamy in mood or nature". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dreamy?

dreamy has 2 syllables: drea-my. The stress falls on "drea". In IPA it is /ˈdɹimi/.

What is another word for dreamy?

Close synonyms include moony, woolgathering, lackadaisical, languid, languorous. 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 dreamy a common word?

dreamy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.