MEANING
To imagine experiences or possibilities while awake and not fully attending to what is happening around you.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- daydream about the future
- daydream during a meeting
On the page
She daydreamed about the coast while the printer worked through another stack of forms.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- daydream
- Past tense
- daydreamed or daydreamt
- Past participle
- daydreamed or daydreamt
- Present participle
- daydreaming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- daydream
- Present continuous
- am/is/are daydreaming
- Present perfect
- have/has daydreamed or daydreamt
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been daydreaming
- Past
- daydreamed or daydreamt
- Past continuous
- was/were daydreaming
- Past perfect
- had daydreamed or daydreamt
- Past perfect continuous
- had been daydreaming
- Future
- will daydream
- Future continuous
- will be daydreaming
- Future perfect
- will have daydreamed or daydreamt
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been daydreaming
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: daydream; daydreams; daydreamed or daydreamt; daydreamed or daydreamt; daydreaming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: daydreams.
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