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castle in the air

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  • noun idiomatic A visionary project or scheme; a day-dream; an idle fancy; a pipe dream; any plan, desire, or idea that is unlikely to be ever realized; a near impossibility.

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  • noun absentminded dreaming while awake

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synonyms (29)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Xanadu
  2. airy nothing
  3. autism
  4. bubble
  5. castle in Spain
  6. castle in the skies
  7. chimera
  8. daydream
  9. deception
  10. deluded belief
  11. delusion
  12. dereism
  13. dream
  14. dream vision
  15. dreamland
  16. dreamworld
  17. false belief
  18. ignis fatuus
  19. illusion
  20. misbelief
  21. misconception
  22. pipe dream
  23. self-deceit
  24. self-deception
  25. self-delusion
  26. trick
  27. trip
  28. vapor
  29. wrong impression

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. dream
  2. dreaming

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