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| Main Entry: |
castle in the air
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wishful thinking |
| Synonyms: | air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the sky, daydream, dreamscape, fantasy, flight of fancy, fond illusion, fool's paradise, pipe dream, unrealistic goal |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | figment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, dream, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, improvisation, invention, lie, nightmare, production |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pipe dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unrealistic hope |
| Synonyms: | air castle, airy hope, castle in the air, castle in the sky, castle in the sky, chimera, daydream, false hope, fantastic notion, fantasy, fool's paradise, fool's paradise, golden dream, pie in the sky, unreal hope, wishful thinking |
| Main Entry: | fool's paradise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusory state of happiness |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air, chimera, delusive contentment, dreamscape, false hope, fond illusion, limbo, pipe dream, quixotic ideal, utopia |
| Main Entry: | pie in the sky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantastical wish |
| Synonyms: | Xanadu, air castle, castle in the air, empty promise, empty wish, end of the rainbow |
| Main Entry: | phantasma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, hallucination, head trip, idea, illusion, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, phantasm, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow*, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, vision, wraith |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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