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English adjective: unreal | |||
| 1. | unreal lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria | ||
| Samples | Ghosts and other unreal entities. Unreal propaganda serving as news. | ||
| Similar | dreamed, envisioned, eye-deceiving, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, hallucinatory, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, legendary, make-believe, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological, notional, pictured, pretend, trompe-l'oeil, visualised, visualized | ||
| See also | artificial, counterfeit, imitative, insincere, supernatural, unreal, unrealistic | ||
| Attribute | realism, reality, realness | ||
| Antonyms | real, existent | ||
| 2. | unreal not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary | ||
| Samples | This conversation is getting more and more unreal. The fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy. The unreal world of advertising art. | ||
| Similar | deceptive, delusory, dreamlike, phantom, surreal | ||
| Antonyms | real | ||
| 3. | unreal contrived by art rather than nature | ||
| Samples | Artificial flowers. Artificial flavoring. An artificial diamond. Artificial fibers. Artificial sweeteners. | ||
| Synonyms | artificial | ||
| Similar | arranged, bionic, bleached, cardboard, celluloid, colored, coloured, conventionalised, conventionalized, dummy, dyed, ersatz, factitious, fake, false, faux, imitation, man-made, near, painted, semisynthetic, simulated, staged, stylised, stylized, substitute, synthetic, synthetic, unlifelike | ||
| See also | counterfeit, imitative, unreal | ||
| Antonyms | natural | ||
| 4. | unreal lacking material form or substance; unreal | ||
| Samples | As insubstantial as a dream. An insubstantial mirage on the horizon. | ||
| Synonyms | insubstantial, unsubstantial | ||
| Similar | aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, ethereal, shadowy, stringy, wraithlike | ||
| See also | immaterial, nonmaterial | ||
| Attribute | solidness, substantiality, substantialness | ||
| Antonyms | substantial, material, real | ||
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