TODAY'S WORD IS: oneiric (adjective)

[BigTrancer]

TODAY'S WORD IS: oneiric (adjective)

Pronounced: oh-NII-rihk (II = long I)

Meaning: of, relating to or suggestive of dreams

"The nitrous gas made her feel like everything happening around her was an oneiric adventure."

This word comes straight from the Greek word "oneiros," meaning dream.

I like it!

BigTrancer

 

[KompleX]

nah, sounds a bit weird when u actually pronounce it mate

 

[KemicalBurn]

sounds cool...where'd you pull this from?

 

[Dvah]

Can we have a new word daily?
Words are cool

 

[nickthecheese]

yay for words!
I find mushrooms put me into a state of semi oneiric bliss

 

[Jimity]

The ketamine we all just snorted makes us feel like an oneri...omeni....oninin......... it fucks us.

 

[goatyoghurt]

"We're the oneironauts, the explorers of the dream world"



30 points to the first one to get that quote.

 

[lost_boi]

you answered getting that in the second half of your response to the original posters topic.

 

[chodelah]

goatyoghurt - isn't that from waking life?

 

[goatyoghurt]

Yeah dude, thats a pretty good way to start your posting career.

 

[chodelah]

ahhaha luv :D
lots of reading, not much posting ^_^ hf all. yay for bigtrancer and his new words :D

 

[-Thoth]

Still, not quite straightforward as 'dreamlike' is it?

 

[ashaman]

to bump BT's thread, i like to make an addition:


oneirophrenia
A state in which hallucinations occur, caused by such conditions as prolonged deprivation of sleep, sensory isolation, and a variety of drugs.

 

[ashaman]

"Aw man, im tripping my balls off this LCD"
"Yeah man, you're just in the oneirophrenia mode.

 

[Pleonastic]

This is all a bit too sesquipedalian for my liking...