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Alice-in-Wonderland

[ al-is-in-wuhn-der-land ]

adjective

  1. resembling a dream or fantasy; unreal:

    an Alice-in-Wonderland world of incompleted projects and wishful thinking.



Alice-in-Wonderland

adjective

  1. fantastic; irrational


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland1

First recorded in 1920–25

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland1

C20: alluding to the absurdities of Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's book

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Example Sentences

The rest of the morning seemed a comical Alice-in-Wonderland repetition of the day of arrival.

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