Positive personality trait
Dreamy
Pleasantly beautiful, peaceful, or lost in happy thought.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Drifts into pleasant imaginings on a bus ride, in a line or partway through a chore.
- Comes back from a daydream with a story, a picture or an idea to share.
- Is gentle and unhurried, and seems happiest with time to let their mind wander.
Fits when someone often drifts into pleasant imagination or gentle abstraction
Not when attention is needed for safety, accuracy, or another person's immediate needs
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: to an employer, dreamy reads as not paying attention. Let the imagination show in the work itself, and keep the word for a story, a poem or a fond description of a child.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] has a dreamy, imaginative streak that feeds their [writing, art or music]: [piece or project] began as one of the daydreams they are always jotting down.
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Report card comment [Name] has a dreamy, imaginative side that shines in story writing, and is learning to bring their attention back quickly when instructions are given.
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In a story, shown not told Halfway through drying the dishes, he stopped with a plate in his hand and watched the rain on the window. When his sister nudged him, he told her the drops were racing, and the one on the left was winning.
His dreamy temperament filled idle bus rides with imagined cities.
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