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View usage for: also pipe-dream Word forms: plural pipe dreamscountable nounA pipe dream is a hope or plan that you have which you know will never really happen. You could waste your whole life on a pipe-dream. Synonyms: daydream, dream, notion, fantasy More Synonyms of pipe dream pipe dream in British Englishnouna fanciful or impossible plan or hope Word origin alluding to dreams produced by smoking an opium pipe pipe dream in American English US Informal a fantastic idea, vain hope or plan, etc. Word origin in allusion to hallucinations experienced by opium smokers Synonyms of 'pipe dream'daydream, dream, notion, fantasy More Synonyms of pipe dream Additional synonymsDefinition absent-minded daydream The voice brought him out of his reverie. Synonyms daydream, musing, preoccupation, trance, abstraction, daydreaming, inattention, absent-mindedness, brown study, woolgathering, castles in the air or Spain Definition an unpredictable change in a situation or in someone's behaviour a coat as a provision against the vagaries of the weatherprotection against operational vagaries Synonyms whim, caprice, unpredictability, sport, urge, fancy, notion, humour, impulse, quirk, conceit (archaic), whimsy, crotchet, sudden notion, megrim (archaic) Definition a fanciful or impossible plan or hope The plan is nothing more than a pipe dream. Synonyms notion delusion castle in the air Additional synonymsDefinition a wild and unrealistic dream or idea He spent his life pursuing the chimera of perfect love. Synonyms illusion, dream, fantasy, delusion, spectre, snare, hallucination, figment, ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp Definition a goal or aim My dream is to have a house in the country. Synonyms ambition, wish, fantasy, plan, hope, goal, design, aim, desire, objective, aspiration, Holy Grail (informal), pipe dreamDefinition a daydream Everyone's had a fantasy about winning the lottery. Synonyms daydream, dream, wish, fancy, delusion, reverie, flight of fancy, pipe dreamNearby words ofpipe dream - pip
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