dream something up Definition

dream
noun

1. A series of unconscious thoughts and mental images that are experienced during sleep.

Thesaurus: ambition, aspiration, goal, hope, wish, desire, design.
2. A state of complete engrossment in one's own thoughts.

Thesaurus: fantasy, illusion, reverie, vision, imagination, hallucination, delusion, phantasm, vagary.
3. A distant ambition, especially an unattainable one.

Thesaurus: ambition, aspiration, goal, hope, wish, desire, design.
4. colloq
An extremely pleasing person or thing
Example: He's a dream to work with.
5. colloq
Luxurious, ideal.

verb dreamed, dreamt, dreaming

tr & intr
1. To have thoughts and visions during sleep.
2a. To have a distant ambition or hope;

Thesaurus: fantasize, imagine, visualize, envisage, stargaze, muse, conjure, fancy, hallucinate.
Form: dream of something (usually)
2b. To conceive of or intend.

Form: dream of something (usually)
intr
3. To have extravagant and unrealistic thoughts or plans.
intr
4. To be lost in thought.

Derivative: dreamer
noun

Someone who has extravagant or unrealistic thoughts or plans
Thesaurus: visionary, utopian, woolgatherer, idealist, fantasizer, romancer, theorizer, stargazer; Antonym: pragmatist, realist.

Derivative: dreamless
adj

Idiom: like a dream

colloq
Extremely well, easily or successfully.

Etymology: 13c as dreme.

Phrasal Verb: dream something up

To devise or invent something unusual or absurd.