N. imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration,
verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, "mind's eye", "such stuff as dreams are made of",
ideality,
idealism,
romanticism,
utopianism, castle-building, dreaming,
phrensy,
frenzy,
ecstasy,
extasy,
calenture,
reverie,
trance, day dream, golden dream,
somnambulism, conception, vorstellung,
excogitation, "a fine frenzy",
cloudland,
dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, "thick coming fancies", creation of the brain, coinage of the brain,
imagery,
conceit,
maggot, figment,
myth, dream, vision, shadow,
chimera,
phantasm,
phantasy,
fantasy, fancy,
whim,
whimsey,
whimsy,
vagary,
rhapsody, romance,
gest,
geste,
extravaganza, air drawn dagger,
bugbear,
nightmare, flying dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en espagne,
utopia,
atlantis, happy valley,
millennium,
fairyland, land of prester john, kingdom of micomicon, work of fiction, arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of alnashar,
illusion,
phantom,
fata morgana,
vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis,
idealist,
romanticist,
visionary,
mopus, romancer, dreamer,
somnambulist,
rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector
V. imagine, fancy, conceive,
idealize,
realize, dream, dream of, dream up, "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name",
create,
originate,
devise,
invent, coin,
fabricate,
improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains,
excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie,
visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself
Adj. imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, v,
imaginative, original,
inventive,
creative, fertile, romantic, high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic, unrealistic,
utopian,
quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial,
illusory,
fabulous,
legendary,
mythical,
mythic,
mythological,
chimerical, imaginary,
visionary,
notional, fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical,
whimsical,
fairy, fairy-like,
gestic Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream", aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, "fancy light from fancy caught", "imagination rules the world", l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, wahrheil und dichtung
N. inactivity, inaction,
inertness,
obstinacy,
lull,
quiescence,
rust,
rustiness, idleness, remissness,
sloth,
indolence,
indiligence,
dawdling, ergophobia,
otiosity, dullness,
languor, segnity|, segnitude|,
lentor,
sluggishness,
procrastination,
torpor,
torpidity,
torpescence,
stupor,
somnolence,
drowsiness,
nodding,
oscitation,
oscitancy,
pandiculation,
hypnotism,
lethargy, statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids, sleep,
slumber, sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep,
morpheus, somnus,
coma,
trance, ecstasis, dream,
hibernation,
nap,
doze,
snooze,
siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks,
snore,
hypnology, dull work,
pottering,
relaxation, castle of indolence,
lullaby,
sedative,
tranquilizer,
hypnotic, sleeping pill,
relaxant,
anaesthetic, general anaesthetic,
torpedo, idler,
drone,
droil,
dawdle,
mopus, do-little faineant,
dummy, sleeping partner, afternoon farmer, truant : bummer|,
loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker,
lounger, lazzarone,
lubber,
lubbard, slow coach, opium eater, lotus eater,
slug, lag|,
sluggard,
slugabed,
slumberer,
dormouse,
marmot, waiter on providence, fruges consumere natus
V. be inactive, do nothing, move slowly, let the grass grow under one's feet, take one's time,
dawdle,
drawl,
droil,
lag, hang back,
slouch,
loll,
lollop,
lounge,
poke,
loaf,
loiter, go to sleep over, sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile, take it easy, take things as they come, lead an easy life,
vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness, loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence, waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time, burn daylight, waste the precious hours, idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time, spend time in, take time in,
peddle,
piddle,
potter,
pudder,
dabble, faddle fribble,
fiddle-faddle,
dally,
dilly-dally, sleep,
slumber, be asleep,
hibernate, oversleep, sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse, sleep soundly,
heavily,
doze, drowze,
snooze,
nap, take a nap, dream, snore one's best, settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep, doze off, drop off, fall asleep, drop asleep, close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids, weigh down the eyelids, get sleep,
nod,
yawn, go to bed, turn, get some z's, stack z's,
languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire,
relax, render idle,
sluggardize,
mitigate Adj. inactive, motionless, unoccupied unbusied,
indolent,
lazy,
slothful, idle,
lusk, remiss,
slack,
inert,
torpid,
sluggish,
otiose,
languid,
supine, heavy, dull,
leaden,
lumpish,
exanimate, soulless, listless,
drony,
dronish, lazy as ludlam's dog,
dilatory,
laggard,
lagging, slow,
rusty,
flagging,
lackadaisical,
maudlin,
fiddle-faddle,
pottering,
shilly-shally, sleeping,
&c. v,
asleep, fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep, in a sound sleep, sound as a top,
dormant,
comatose, in the arms of morpheus, in the lap of morpheus,
sleepy, sleepful,
dozy,
drowsy,
somnolent,
torpescent,
lethargic,
lethargical, somnifacient, statuvolent, statuvolic, heavy, heavy with sleep,
napping,
somnific,
somniferous,
soporous,
soporific,
soporiferous,
hypnotic,
balmy,
dreamy, unawakened, unawakened,
sedative Adv. inactively, at leisure
Phr. the eyes begin to draw straws, "bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease", "better 50 years of europe than a cycle of cathay", "idly busy rolls their world away", "the mystery of folded sleep", "the timely dew of sleep", "thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep", "tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep"
N. insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility,
inertness,
inertia, vis inertiae,
impassibility,
impassibleness,
inappetency,
apathy,
phlegm, dullness,
hebetude,
supineness,
lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness,
frigidity, sang froid,
stoicism,
imperturbation,
nonchalance,
unconcern, dry eyes,
insouciance,
recklessness,
callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness,
torpor,
torpidity, obstupefaction|,
lethargy,
coma,
trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation,
stupor,
stupefaction,
paralysis,
palsy,
numbness,
neutrality,
quietism, vegetation
V. be insensible, have a rhinoceros hide, show insensibility, not mind, not care, not be affected by, have no desire for, have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in, nil admirari, not care a straw for, disregard, set at naught, turn a deaf ear to,
vegetate, render insensible, render callous,
blunt,
obtund,
numb,
benumb,
paralyze,
deaden,
hebetate,
stun,
stupefy,
brutify,
brutalize,
chloroform,
anaesthetize, put under, assify,
inure, harden the heart, steel,
caseharden,
sear Adj. insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to,
unsusceptible,
insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral,
apathetic, leuco-|,
phlegmatic, dull,
frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat,
maudlin,
obtuse,
inert,
supine,
sluggish,
torpid,
torpedinous,
torporific,
sleepy,
languid,
half-hearted,
tame,
numbed,
comatose,
anaesthetic,
stupefied,
chloroformed,
drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent,
lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless,
inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned,
nonchalant,
pococurante,
insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected,
unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved,
unstirred, untouched,
unshocked, unstruck,
unblushing,
unanimated,
vegetative,
callous,
thick-skinned, hard-nosed,
pachydermatous,
impervious,
hardened,
inured,
casehardened, steeled against, proof against,
imperturbable, unfelt
Adv. insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung
Phr. never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to