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Pipe dream

Pipe dream Meaning & Definition
Pipe dream Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pipe dream?

[n] a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pipe dream: dream

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pipe dream: absence of mind | absentmindedness | absorption | abstractedness | abstraction | airy hope | airy nothing | autism | bad dream | be absent | bemusement | brown study | bubble | castle-building | chimera | daydream | daydreamer | daydreaming | deception | deluded belief | delusion | depth of thought | dereism | divagate | dream | dream of | dream vision | dreaming | dreamland | dreamworld | engrossment | false belief | fantasy | fantasying | fit of abstraction | freak out | go woolgathering | golden dream | ignis fatuus | illusion | incubus | misbelief | misconception | moon | mooning | moonraking | muse | musefulness | musing | muted ecstasy | nightmare | pipe-dreaming | preoccupation | quixotic ideal | reverie | self-deceit | self-deception | self-delusion | stargaze | stargazing | stray | study | trance | trick | trip | unreal hope | utopia | vapor | vision | Walter Mitty | wander | woolgathering | wrong impression

See Also | fantasy | phantasy

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