dreams

NOUN

illusion, vision

Synonyms

STRONGEST

delusion fantasy idea image imagination nightmare thought

STRONG

bubble chimera daydream fancy hallucination impression incubus rainbow reverie specter speculation trance vagary wraith

WEAK

castle in the air head trip mental picture pie in the sky pipe dream

Antonyms

STRONGEST

concrete entity reality truth

STRONG

fact

WEAK

actuality certainty existence substance

NOUN

goal

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ambition aspiration desire hope notion wish

STRONG

design

WEAK

flight of fancy pipe dream

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dislike hate hatred

WEAK

actuality certainty existence fact reality substance truth

VERB

conjure up scenario

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conceive crave daydream fantasize invent think visualize

STRONG

brainstorm concoct create devise envisage fancy formulate hallucinate hanker hatch hunger idealize imagine long lust picture pine sigh stargaze sublimate thirst

WEAK

be delirious be moonstruck be up in clouds build castles in air cook up have a flash have a nightmare have a notion have a vision make up search for pot of gold think up

Antonyms

STRONG

despise dislike hate

Example Sentences

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The majority of the population is foreign born, and the conflict risks residents and investors leaving the country, converting their Emirati dirhams into dollars and reducing the dollar reserves of the central bank.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

But the flow of dirhams and riyals doesn’t stop there.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Kalhan, also from Sri Lanka, earns a small percentage on each sale, topping up a fixed salary of barely 3,000 dirhams -- an amount he will have to survive on this month.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

She warned that hammam closures would “increase the fragility and suffering of this class, whose monthly income does not exceed 2,000 or 3,000 dirhams at best.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Quoth he, "I will not sell him but for ten thousand dirhams."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir