dreamilyadverb
uk/ˈdriː.məl.i/us/ˈdriː.məl.i/If you say or do something dreamily, you do it as if you are not completely awake and are thinking of pleasant things:
"We had a wonderful evening sitting on the beach and looking at the stars," she said dreamily.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not paying attention
- absent
- absent-minded
- absently
- abstracted
- anyhow
- be having a moment idiom
- blind
- faraway
- glaze
- go back to sleep! idiom
- hasty
- heedless
- not take a blind bit of notice idiom
- perfunctory
- remiss
- sideline
- slapdash
- slaphappy
- sloppy
- wander
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