Alice-in-wonderland
resembling a dream or fantasy; unreal:
an Alice-in-Wonderland world of incompleted projects and wishful thinking.
a story for children (1865) by Lewis Carroll.
adjective
fantastic; irrational
(1865) A book by Lewis Carroll. Alice, a young girl, enters Wonderland by following the White Rabbit down his hole and has many strange adventures there. She meets the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the grinning Cheshire cat, and the tyrannical Queen of Hearts. Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
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