French Conversation · Level 102
60 words
French word
onirique
Pronunciation
IPA/oniʁik/
Meaning
- adjectivedreamlike
Example
La musique crée une ambiance onirique.
The music creates a dreamlike atmosphere.
More examples
Le film était étrange et onirique.
The film was strange and dreamlike.
Core concept
A work or atmosphere that turns a real place into an imaginative world with dreamlike distance and poetic strangeness.
Common phrases
film onirique
dreamlike film
scène onirique
dreamlike scene
Similar words
irréel: Seeming detached from reality, as though it were not real.
surréaliste: Strange and surreal, defying ordinary logic and everyday experience.
Definition in French
Qui évoque la qualité d'un rêve, notamment le côté irréel, fantastique ou poétique d'une chose.
Word origin
Onirique comes from Greek oneiros, dream, through a learned French formation using the productive suffix -ique.
Usage tips
- Onirique is more literary and descriptive than everyday phrases such as "comme dans un rêve".
Other meanings
- surrealadjective
Opposites
- réelrealadjective