fever-dreamlike

From fever dream +‎ -like.

fever-dreamlike (comparative more fever-dreamlike, superlative most fever-dreamlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fever dream.
   • 1989, “FROM BEYOND”, in James J. Mulay, editor, The Horror Film: A Guide to More Than 700 Films on Videocassette, Evanston, Ill.: CineBooks, →ISBN, page 91, column 2:

     Stuart Gordon, whose debut, RE-ANIMATOR, was the sleeper horror hit of 1985, returned again to the fever-dreamlike stories of H.P. Lovecraft for his source in FROM BEYOND.

   • 2007, David Gritten, “Notes on a Scandal”, in Halliwell’s Film, Video & DVD Guide 2008, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 859, column 4:

     [T]he dominant tone is barely suppressed hysteria, complemented perfectly by Philip Glass’s insistent, fever-dreamlike score.

   • 2021, Ari Marmell, chapter 23, in Litany of Dreams (Arkham Horror), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Aconyte Books, →ISBN, page 313:

     Or was it his nerves at all? Elliot thought back, despite himself, to the fever-dreamlike trudge through the Hockomock, to the resting place of the Ujaraanni, to the swamp’s vague corruption and the almost desperate efforts of nature itself to purge the intrusion.