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How to pronounce daydreamer in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms woolgatherer
Type of bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer
Has types stargazer, wishful thinker, dreamer, escapist, lotus-eater
Derivation daydream

Examples of daydreamer

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Since she was a child, Zoe has been a daydreamer and inhabitant of strange worlds.
From the forbes.com
However, the daydreamer is typically sitting or standing with eyes open and appears to be awake.
From the delawareonline.com
Most of the time, I am the messy disaster, the daydreamer, the disheveled, self-deprecating deep sigher.
From the us.cnn.com
The moment reduced Storen to a daydreamer, same as the 45,274 souls wearing red and packing the seats.
From the washingtonpost.com
If it fails, he'll go down as a narcissistic daydreamer.
From the sacbee.com
Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans.
From the time.com
He was quiet, a daydreamer, the kind of child for whom noise and chaos and crowds produced intense discomfort.
From the stltoday.com
Nicci Madison, who calls herself a daydreamer and video-game enthusiast, is into science, the environment and writing.
From the courier-journal.com
A less disciplined and agile author might have been tempted to ease Lev's transition from daydreamer to doer.
From the nytimes.com
More examples
  • Someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming
  • A daydream is a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake.Klinger, Eric (October 1987). Psychology Today. ...
  • "Daydreamer" was a popular song by David Cassidy.
  • The Daydreamer is a 1966 Rankin/Bass stop-motion puppet animation and live-action musical fantasy film. Directed by Jules Bass, it was written by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Romeo Muller, based on the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. It features songs by Jules Bass and Maury Laws.
  • The Daydreamer is a 1994 children's novel by British author Ian McEwan, illustrated by Anthony Browne. ...
  • The Daydreamer was the soundtrack for the 1966 film The Daydreamer which starred Paul O'Keefe, Jack Gilford, Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger.
  • One who daydreams; A person who wastes time daydreaming of accomplishments instead of accomplishing things
  • This escapist activity is fine for slackers, but idlers must resist it! As Simone Weil noted, although the imagination can be a powerful tool for liberation, the daydreamer ["dream" is from an Indo-European word meaning "deception"] may be tempted into "filling up the void with compensatory ...