Meaning & use
dreamy
Having a soft, vague, or otherworldly quality, or lost in pleasant thought and inattentive to surroundings.
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The film had a dreamy, slow-motion quality in its final scene.
She stared out the window with a dreamy expression during the entire lecture.
A note on using this word
Can describe a hazy visual quality or a person's distracted, thoughtful facial expression.
Words with a similar meaning
hazywistful
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