🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

onirique

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ɔ.ni.ʁik/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dreamlike/ˈdriːm.laɪk/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Les peintures de cet artiste ont une atmosphère onirique."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Resembling a dream; having an unreal, surreal, or illusory quality.

    "Walking through the misty morning mountains felt a distinctly dreamlike experience."
  2. 2

    Suggesting a state of detached consciousness, fantasy, or hallucinatory perception.

    "She moved through the crowded room in a dreamlike daze, barely recognizing her surroundings."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'dreamlike' is derived from the combination of 'dream', which comes from the Old English 'drēam', meaning 'joy' or 'music', and 'like', which originates from the Old English 'lic', meaning 'having the characteristics of'. The word evolved to describe something resembling a dream in quality or appearance.

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