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dream•less

(ˈdrim lɪs)

adj.

not marked, disturbed, or enhanced by dreams: dreamless sleep.

[1595–1605]

dream′less•ly, adv.

dream′less•ness, n.

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Adj.

dreamless - untroubled by dreams; "a sound and dreamless sleep"

untroubled - not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress; "seemed untroubled by doubts of any kind"; "untroubled sleep"; "a kind untroubled face"

Translations

بِدون أحْلام

bezesný

drømmeløs

traumlos

álom nélküli

draumlaus

dyp søvn

deliksiz

不做梦的睡得很香的

dreamless

[ˈdriːmlɪs] ADJ → sin sueños

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dreamless

[ˈdriːmləs] adj [sleep] → sans rêves

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dreamless

adj sleep → traumlos

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dreamless

[ˈdriːmlɪs] adj → senza sogni

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

dream

(driːm) noun

1. thoughts and pictures in the mind that come mostly during sleep. I had a terrible dream last night.

2. a state of being completely occupied by one's own thoughts. Don't sit there in a dream!

3. something perfect or very beautiful. Your house is a dream!

4. an ambition or hope. It's my dream to win a Nobel Prize.

verb – past tense, past participles dreamed, ~dreamt (dremt) –

(sometimes with of) to see visions and pictures in the mind, especially when asleep. For years I dreamed of being a great artist; I dreamt last night that the house had burnt down.

ˈdreamer noun

a person who is often occupied with his thoughts. I'm afraid my son is a bit of a dreamer and not very practical.

ˈdreamless adjective

(of sleep) sound; not disturbed by dreams.

ˈdreamy adjective

as if of a person who is not quite awake. a dreamy smile; She is too dreamy.

ˈdreamily adverb

ˈdreaminess noun

dream up

to invent. I'm sure she'll dream up some silly plan.

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One dark night in midsummer a man waking from a dreamless sleep in a forest lifted his head from the earth, and staring a few moments into the blackness, said: "Catherine Larue." He said nothing more; no reason was known to him why he should have said so much.

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I decided that at the first opportunity I would take Sola into my confidence and openly ask her to aid me, and with this resolution strong upon me I turned among my silks and furs and slept the dreamless and refreshing sleep of Mars.

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He took another whiskey and soda to steady himself, and going to bed sank into a dreamless sleep till mid-day.

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After I had fallen over eight or nine precipices and thus found out that one half of my brain had been asleep eight or nine times without the wide-awake, hard-working other half suspecting it, the periodical unconsciousnesses began to extend their spell gradually over more of my brain-territory, and at last I sank into a drowse which grew deeper and deeper and was doubtless just on the very point of being a solid, blessed dreamless stupor, when--what was that?

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He had not proceeded two miles from the point where he had had the interview with the Nez Perce chief, when he threw himself upon the earth, without the power or will to move a muscle, or exert a thought, and sank almost instantly into a profound and dreamless sleep.

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The first act of the Witch was to make the boy drink a potion which quickly sent him into a deep and dreamless sleep.

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I awoke, suddenly and unaccountably, from a deep and dreamless sleep with an all-pervading sensation of nervous uneasiness which I had never felt before.

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Worn out in body and mind, she slept from sheer exhaustion -- slept heavily and dreamless for some hours.

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Then, having eaten, too, I lay down with my back to that of my faithful hound, and dropped into a deep and dreamless sleep.

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They have made us weary, and in dreamless sleep these two long centuries have we lain.

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Sir Henry and I contented ourselves with rougher arrangements, and soon were curled up in our blankets, and dropping off into the dreamless sleep that rewards the traveller.

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She must have been very tired for she fell asleep at once, but after an hour or two of dreamless sleep, she dreamt.