Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun daydream

1 sense of daydream

Sense 1
reverie, revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, air castle, castle in the air, castle in Spain -- (absentminded dreaming while awake)
       => dream, dreaming -- (imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb daydream

2 senses of daydream

Sense 1
dream, daydream, woolgather, stargaze -- (have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy)
       => imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage -- (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?")

Sense 2
daydream, moon -- (have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming")
       => idle, laze, slug, stagnate -- (be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning")