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Meanings of dreamlike in English

Resembling a dream.

Resembling a dream.

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Usage of dreamlike in English
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LockerRoom: Do you know what, but Saturday morning had a dreamlike quality.
The Irish Times
2
Yesterday had been a little dreamlike-nightmare-like-buttodaythe reality was setting in.
Storm Front
3
Nina's whole experience in the spirit-world held a dreamlike quality for her.
The Dreaming Place
4
Absurd as in non-rational, dreamlike, an escape from what passes for reality.
The Guardian
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It is a dreamlike effect, collapsing the distinction between inside and outside.
The Guardian
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Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him.
Ender’s Game
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So far it is all too dreamlike, too strange, surreal and silent.
Night of knives
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But this stupendous fragmentariness heightened the dreamlike strangeness of her bridal life.
Middlemarch
9
Images morph into one another, everything unfolding with a haunting, dreamlike serenity.
Wired
10
She looked at Darkhorse, smiled briefly, then returned to her dreamlike gazing.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
11
Moving through a dreamlike haze, he floated across to the sleeping pallet.
Gravity
12
It was blue-black with a dreamlike oval picture of an industrial waterfront.
The cardturner
13
These burst suddenly upon the view, then slipped past with dreamlike swiftness.
The Iron Trail
14
The veil of toxic clouds gave the surroundings a distorted, dreamlike appearance.
Sisterhood of Dune
15
I floated in a dreamlike eternity, devoid of fears, plans, or regrets.
Climbing Magazine
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But it was a perfect kind of alone, a delicate, dreamlike peace.
Ice Like Fire
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Dreamlike across language varieties
United States of America
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United Kingdom
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