daydreamed

verb

past tense of daydream
as in dreamed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreamed
  1. dreamed
  2. fantasized
  3. envisioned
  4. visualized
  5. imagined
  6. fancied
  7. envisaged
  8. conceived
Verb
  • Wimbledon has been a tournament that Djokovic has dreamt of his whole life.
    — Mary Wenthur, Footwear News, 28 June 2026
  • In Harmony Roundtree, a new generation gets the experience Jackson dreamed of—ghost sightings and all.
    — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of dreamed
Verb
  • There was always a small part of him that fantasized about leaving it all behind and going to live off the grid.
    — Steven Rowley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • The brand's return has been fantasized for years and ecstatically anticipated ever since Marc Jacobs Beauty was credited for the makeup in Jacobs's spring 2026 New York Fashion Week show.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 20 May 2026
Definition of fantasized
Verb
  • The NBCUniversal spin-off is envisioned as a tax-free transaction for shareholders, providing a short-term buffer from deal-making to preserve that structure.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • This unique telescope is using the world’s largest digital camera to scan the entire southern sky every few nights, assembling what will become the most lavishly detailed time-lapse of the cosmos humanity has ever envisioned.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
Definition of envisioned
Verb
  • Researchers recently visualized a set of images across a spectrum of red, white, and blue hues compiled by the Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • This can be visualized as a kind of barcode, with some narrow stripes and some thicker continuous stripes following one another.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
Definition of visualized
Verb
  • The tools now entering those classrooms are more powerful and far less accountable than anyone writing that legislation could have imagined.
    — Masha Pearl, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026
  • The men who signed that document could not have imagined artificial intelligence, quantum computing or cyberspace.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of imagined
Verb
  • Based on projections, Iran is still fancied to progress but if Algeria-Austria is a draw in Group J, a result that sends both through, DR Congo beats Uzbekistan and Croatia gets at least a point against Ghana, then the Iranians are out.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • The problem with Dolan, this person confided, was that the owner fancied himself knowledgeable about basketball.
    — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
Definition of fancied
Verb
  • Her exhibit design vision, envisaged in partnership with partner Paul Cournet and his studio Cloud, incorporated luminescence and hues that radiated from the gems, dictating the color palette of purple, green, yellow and pink.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 25 June 2026
  • Global is confident that the show has already been renewed for a second season and Abrams said it was envisaged to return multiple times.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 June 2026
Definition of envisaged
Verb
  • Built around a towering sandstone escarpment that rises through the centre of the property, surrounded by a deliciously cold pool, the architecture was conceived in careful negotiation with the landscape.
    — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
  • To that end, the firm drew inspiration from the shapes of farmland structures and conceived a cluster of interconnected buildings that flow from one to another with a series of hallways.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
Definition of conceived
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