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Definitions

castles in the air

ADJECTIVE

fanciful

Synonyms

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absurd bizarre extravagant fantastic fantastical fictional imaginative offbeat preposterous unreal whimsical

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aerial blue-sky capricious chimerical curious dreamlike fabulous fairy-tale fancied fictitious fictive flaky floating ideal illusory imagined incredible kinky legendary mythical notional on cloud nine pie in the sky pipe dream poetic shadowy suppositious visionary wild

Antonyms

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normal reasonable sensible usual

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grave ordinary real serious sincere unfanciful unimaginative unromantic

NOUN

reverie

Synonyms

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contemplation fantasy meditation trance

STRONG

absorption abstraction detachment dreaminess dreaming inattention muse musing pensiveness phantasy preoccupation study thought trip woolgathering

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absent-mindedness castle-building fool's paradise head trip mind trip pipe dream

Antonyms

WEAK

nightmare

NOUN

vision

Synonyms

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aspect conception dream fantasy foresight idea ideal imagination insight outlook perspective point of view understanding view

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angle astuteness daydream discernment divination facet fancy farsightedness foreknowledge ideality intuition keenness muse nightmare penetration phantasm prescience retrospect slant standpoint trip

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breadth of view head trip mental picture pie in the sky pipe dream

Antonyms

STRONGEST

being existence ignorance reality substance truth

WEAK

actuality fact sightlessness

Example Sentences

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Briceño: Something that I always valued about Cookman was that he never sold us any castles in the air.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

They're giddy at having two women pledge to make their sundry castles in the air become real.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2021

“You can be building castles in the air that have no reference to reality,” Mr. Kesler added.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2017

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2017

“Wouldn’t it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them?” said Jo, after a little pause.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

castles in the air

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