Meaning & use

dreamy

adjective·Everyday

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.

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