pipe dream
59 synonyms found
- absence of mind
- absentmindedness
- absorption
- abstractedness
- airy hope
- airy nothing
- autism
- bad dream
- be absent
- bemusement
- brown study
- castle-building
- chimera
- daydream
- daydreamer
- daydreaming
- deluded belief
- depth of thought
- dereism
- divagate
- dream of
- dream vision
- dreaming
- dreamland
- dreamworld
- engrossment
- false belief
- fantasy
- fantasying
- fit of abstraction
- freak out
- go woolgathering
- golden dream
- ignis fatuus
- incubus
- misbelief
- mooning
- moonraking
- muse
- musefulness
- musing
- muted ecstasy
- nightmare
- pipe-dreaming
- quixotic ideal
- reverie
- self-deceit
- self-deception
- self-delusion
- stargaze
- stargazing
- trance
- trip
- unreal hope
- utopia
- vision
- Walter Mitty
- woolgathering
- wrong impression
Definition
"I think his plan to become a professional athlete is a pipe dream and he should stay in school."