castle in the air
noun phrase
variants or less commonly castle in Spain
: an impracticable project : daydream
Word History
First Known Use
1566, in the meaning defined above
castle in the air
phrase
as in dream
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality He would work tirelessly to prove to his father that his dreams of becoming a professional painter were more than a castle in the air. Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- dream
- idea
- fantasy
- pipe dream
- daydream
- castle in Spain
- fantasm
- vision
- chimera
- delusion
- illusion
- figment
- hallucination
- unreality
- mirage
- phantasm
- conceit
- ignis fatuus
- nightmare
- nonentity
- fancy
- fiction
- invention
- fabrication
- concoction
- fable
- brainchild
- visualization
- cloudland
- will-o'-the-wisp
- utopia
- envisaging
- Shangri-la
- daymare
- cloud-cuckoo-land
- imaging
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- fact
- actuality
- reality