释义 |
ˈdreamful, a. [f. dream n.2 + -ful.] Full of or abounding in dreams; dreamy.
1552Huloet, Dreamefull or full of dreamynge, somniculosus. 1781Mickle Siege of Marseilles v. i. (R.), While Reason sleeps..she[Melancholy] impious leads The dreamful fancy. 1832Tennyson Eleänore 30 Into dreamful slumber lull'd. 1872M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl III. vii. 166 Of the Lotos-land a dreamful denizen. Hence ˈdreamfully adv., dreamily.
1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 198 As singers dreamfully play with a flitting chorus. 1887Century Mag. July 412 Where dusk-green sway the pine-boughs dreamfully. |