What's the difference between dreamt and dreamy?

Dreamt


Definition:

  • () of Dream

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That interplay between message and content became the basis of his consultancy, Good Business, dreamt up partly with the CND campaigner Marjorie Thompson.
  • (2) The euro symbolises the ever closer union dreamt of by Europe's founders back in the 1950s.
  • (3) It is a tough task but one Elliot could only have dreamt of performing in August.
  • (4) He was, indeed, so reluctant to take sides that he got thrown out of the surrealist movement for confessing that he dreamt about the Nazi leader.
  • (5) A message was flashing on each pillar: Sophie Calle , end of sleepless night, 7:00 a.m. As if to confirm that I hadn't dreamt it all.
  • (6) But what's remarkable is the absence of support from the Conservative politicians who dreamt up this dire wheeze in the first place.
  • (7) The bestselling authors of the day - Ian Fleming, Len Deighton and John le Carré - could not have dreamt up a story more likely to strike a chord with the general public.
  • (8) Far from being a game dreamt up by marketing executives in the 80s, it turns out a version of handball was played by the Ancient Greeks.
  • (9) There began a long dreamt of US-PLO dialogue; he called it the Palestinians' "passport to the world".
  • (10) Dreamt up by costume designer Casey Storm, the striking pants are now available for $195 (£120) in Opening Ceremony stores in the US .
  • (11) Buso said he passed out in the rubble and sometimes dreamt he could hear his mother crying.
  • (12) Margareta van den Bosch, who dreamt up the H&M collaborations concept during a long tenure as head of design for H&M and now works as creative adviser to the brand, said the Wang collection broke new ground because “most pieces were developed from scratch, instead of reissuing archive pieces … Alex is one of the most important voices in fashion today … his designs are urban, wearable and covetable, offering a new take on an urban uniform … [he] has an inherent understanding of what people want to wear, and everything he does is with an energy and passion that’s infectious”.
  • (13) But rather king – the role he was born to do – the occupations he dreamt of were astronaut, policeman and firebreather.
  • (14) As an activist, web developer and poet, I never dreamt of being a politician and nor have I ever wanted to be a part of a political party.
  • (15) Green & Black's This name was dreamt up by the company founders as symbols of the brand: green for organic and black for the colour of chocolate.
  • (16) After the sacking of Martin Jol on Sunday, Rene Meulensteen's first game in charge was going exactly as he had dreamt it.
  • (17) But I'm 65, I've had the most wonderful life I'd ever dreamt of.
  • (18) The world would be uninhabitable if all of us dreamt on the epic scale of Ali but it would be a considerably drabber place if one among us had not done so.
  • (19) A dream that was dreamt by an entire country.” Costa Rica now play Holland on Saturday in a surprising last-eight appearance for the country that has a quarter of the population of Brazil’s biggest city.
  • (20) At breakfast one day – Leonid Brezhnev was still in the Kremlin, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia a recent memory – she tossed her head and, after a slight, shy hesitation, confided: “You know, last night I had a dream.” She had dreamt that, by accident, just for one night, the Berlin Wall was opened.

Dreamy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
  • (2) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
  • (3) Debating issues such as unemployment benefits and the rehabilitation of prisoners, I was suddenly propelled into the role of standalone lefty whose views were brandished "dreamy" and "irrational".
  • (4) Jack is played with dreamy intensity and later (as the realities of criminal life begin to kick in) with steely resolve by LaBeouf, who must be able to sympathise with Jack's predicament.
  • (5) As she spoke, McAllister, leaning on a lectern sipping water, had the dreamy-eyed look of someone listening to a nightclub crooner.
  • (6) But Brief Encounter has survived such threats, because it is so well made, because Laura's voiceover narration is truly anguished and dreamy, because the music suckers all of us, and because Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are perfect.
  • (7) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
  • (8) Besides the latter movement disorders, "dreamy state", episodic amnesia ("ictal" amnesia) and amnestic "black out" as transient memory disorders have been observed.
  • (9) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
  • (10) Or the dreamy sex expert inspired by the time Demetriou swiped right on Tinder.
  • (11) Politics are just one element in a dreamy, flowing landscape with no clear boundaries.
  • (12) ADD-H children were more day-dreamy and lethargic by teacher report, more impaired in perceptual-motor speed, and had more anxiety disorders among their relatives than did ADD+H children.
  • (13) Memory troubles like dreamy-state are due to a simultaneous impairment of some neo-cortical areas and of Ammon's horn.
  • (14) But if the meaning was a little vague, the clothes were pretty, and played the good-guys in this dystopian vision, with butter-wouldn’t-melt artist-smock shapes in dreamy chambray and broderie anglaise.
  • (15) Pentazocine, 45 mg intramuscularly, caused deterioration in tracking performance and was followed by reports of depression, gloominess, dreaminess, nausea, and injection site pain.
  • (16) In many ways, Comfort feels like a night-time counterpart to last year's dreamy Playin' Me by Cooly G, another debut album from a cutting-edge London producer overlooked by the Mercury panel: this year's shortlist may feature more dance albums than ever, but it's evident that those in charge simply don't know where to look beyond those whose commercial success makes them unignorable (Rudimental, Disclosure), or those that offer polite, 6music-friendly takes on dancefloor innovations of eight years ago (Jon Hopkins).
  • (17) It induces euphoria, a feeling of pleasant dreaminess.
  • (18) Six years ago, this dreamy spot drew British couple Emma and Ben Heywood to what would become Villa Miela, an old stone house they converted into the base for their Undiscovered Montenegro activity holidays.
  • (19) I even had a dreamy doctor boyfriend – a mastectomy specialist, not a gynecologist like Jon Fielding – who was ultimately unnerved by my growing contempt for the closet.
  • (20) He transformed Montreal from a provincial town to a global city, with a combination of dreamy ideas and tough-mindedness.

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