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synonyms for pipe-dreams

  • contemplate
  • figure out
  • guess
  • hypothesize
  • read
  • reflect
  • ruminate
  • surmise
  • weigh
  • wonder
  • brainstorm
  • cerebrate
  • cogitate
  • conjecture
  • consider
  • deliberate
  • excogitate
  • figure
  • guesstimate
  • meditate
  • muse
  • reason
  • review
  • scheme
  • study
  • suppose
  • suspect
  • beat one's brains
  • build castles in air
  • call it
  • call the turn
  • chew over
  • dope out
  • have a hunch
  • hazard a guess
  • head-trip
  • kick around
  • pipe-dream
  • psych out
  • read between lines
  • run it up flagpole
  • size up
On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pipe-dreams, such as: contemplate, figure out, guess, hypothesize, read, and reflect.

antonyms for pipe-dreams

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  • disregard
  • ignore
  • neglect
  • dismiss
  • forget
  • know
  • abstain
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How to use pipe-dreams in a sentence

There's all sorts of pipe-dreams floating around about men's stealing from the mine and stealing from the mill.
BLUE GOOSEFRANK LEWIS NASON
The pipe-dreams of retrospection are as engrossing and enjoyable as those of anticipation to the appreciative angler.
FAVORITE FISH AND FISHINGJAMES ALEXANDER HENSHALL
Honest, we was makin' up all kinds of pipe dreams about her, and believin' 'em as we went along.
TORCHYSEWELL FORD
These papers are "pipe dreams and adventures of an habitual novel-reader among some great books and their people."
KENTUCKY IN AMERICAN LETTERS, V. 2 OF 2JOHN WILSON TOWNSEND
Questions now might produce only pipe dreams, for the imagination is rather too active under such circumstances.
BOY SCOUTS IN THE NORTHWESTG. HARVEY RALPHSON
And don't have any pipe dreams about the law—the law ain't called into things of this sort as a rule.
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATEEARL DERR BIGGERS
I continued my pipe dreams, and my reading; indeed, they were often connected.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A THIEFHUTCHINS HAPGOOD
You can't spend pipe dreams, if you win; and if you lose,102 it don't shrink the size of your really truly roll.
TORCHYSEWELL FORD
All those fancies of 37 his for better, higher things had been only “pipe dreams.”
KILLYKINICKMARY T. WAGGAMAN
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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