Alice-in-Wonderland
[ al-is-in-wuhn-der-land ]
adjective
resembling a dream or fantasy; unreal: an Alice-in-Wonderland world of incompleted projects and wishful thinking.
Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland
1First recorded in 1920–25
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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
fantastic; irrational
Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland
1C20: alluding to the absurdities of Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's book
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