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.

Alice-in-Wonderland

adjective

1. fantastic; irrational

Word History and Origins

Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Word History and Origins

Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland¹

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

Example Sentences

She threw a welcome party for herself at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, a beautiful old building with black and white marble, Alice-in-Wonderland floors.

From Los Angeles Times

She threw a welcome party for herself at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, a beautiful old building with black and white marble, Alice-in-Wonderland floors.

From Los Angeles Times

A: Welcome to the Alice-in-Wonderland world of prescription drug insurance.

From Seattle Times

She threw a welcome party for herself at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, a beautiful old building with black and white marble, Alice-in-Wonderland floors.

From Los Angeles Times

In Waterlog, his celebrated chronicle of swimming through Britain’s waterways, the naturalist Roger Deakin described swimming as having a transformative, Alice-in-Wonderland quality; it was an activity that had power over his perception of self and of time.

From The Guardian