dreamless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Germanic *draumaz Proto-West Germanic *draum Old English drēam Middle English drem English dream Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English dreamless From dream + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without dreams.
She spent the night in a deep and dreamless sleep.
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
Deriveds
Translations (4)
fi unelmaton (without dreams or visions while awake) · eo sensonĝa (without dreams while sleeping) · fi uneton (without dreams while sleeping) · izh unetoin (without dreams while sleeping)