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# dreamily

«dreamily» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a dreamy way, as if half asleep or thinking about…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (dreamily; more dreamily, most dreamily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a dreamy way, as if half asleep or thinking about something far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#m1)

2) In a soft, gentle, pleasant way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories to show a character lost in thought, sleepy or happy, often looking out of a window or at the water. Alice at the start of Alice in Wonderland feels sleepy on the river bank, and the Mole gazes dreamily at the river.

### examples

- She stared dreamily out of the classroom window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#x1)
- The Mole gazed dreamily at the flowing water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#x2)
- He smiled dreamily, thinking of the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#x3)
- Alice said dreamily, «Do cats eat bats?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#x4)
- The music played dreamily in the background. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#x5)
- The cat stretched dreamily in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#x6)
- There he sat, dreamily gazing at his bouquet till he ended by going fast asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/#x7)

### note

From «dreamy» + «-ly» (y → i): dreamily. Teachers may say a pupil is «daydreaming» if they look out of the window dreamily.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dreamily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dreamily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.