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Dreamless

[dreem-lis]

adjective

undisturbed by dreams: a sound and dreamless sleep.

Origin:
1595–1605; dream + -less

Related forms

dream·less·ly, adverb

dream·less·ness, noun

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dream (driːm)

—n
1.	a. mental activity, usually in the form of an imagined series of events, occurring during certain phases of sleep
	b. (as modifier): a dream sequence
	c. (in combination): dreamland Related: oneiric
2.	a. a sequence of imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; daydream; fantasy
	b. (as modifier): a dream world
3.	a person or thing seen or occurring in a dream
4.	a cherished hope; ambition; aspiration
5.	a vain hope
6.	a person or thing that is as pleasant, or seemingly unreal, as a dream
7.	go like a dream to move, develop, or work very well

—vb (when intr, foll by of or about) (foll by of) , dreams, dreaming, dreamed, dreamt
8.	(may take a clause as object) to undergo or experience (a dream or dreams)
9.	(intr) to indulge in daydreams
10.	(intr) to suffer delusions; be unrealistic: you're dreaming if you think you can win
11.	to have an image (of) or fantasy (about) in or as if in a dream
12.	to consider the possibility (of): I wouldn't dream of troubling you

—*adj*
13.	too good to be true; ideal: dream kitchen

Related: oneiric

[Old English drēam song; related to Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr, Greek thrulos noise]

'dreamful

—*adj*

'dreamfully

—*adv*

'dreaming

—n, —*adj*

'dreamingly

—*adv*

'dreamless

—*adj*

'dreamlessly

—*adv*

'dreamlessness

—n

'dreamlike

—*adj*

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"The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing—that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep."

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