Alice-in-Wonderland

[ al-is-in-wuhn-der-land ]

adjective
  1. resembling a dream or fantasy; unreal: an Alice-in-Wonderland world of incompleted projects and wishful thinking.

Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland

1
First recorded in 1920–25

Words Nearby Alice-in-Wonderland

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How to use Alice-in-Wonderland in a sentence

  • The rest of the morning seemed a comical Alice-in-Wonderland repetition of the day of arrival.

    Tom and Some Other Girls | Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

British Dictionary definitions for Alice-in-Wonderland

Alice-in-Wonderland

adjective
  1. fantastic; irrational

Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland

1
C20: alluding to the absurdities of Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's book

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