Found 3 hits - Term: unreal, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unreal \unre"al\, a.
not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
unreal
adj 1: lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not
corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria;
"ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda
serving as news" ant: real
2: not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary;
"this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the
fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy";
"the unreal world of advertising art" ant: reala
3: contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers";
"artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond";
"artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" syn: artificial
ant: natural
4: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as
insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the
horizon" syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial ant: substantial
see also:
real reala artificial natural insubstantial unsubstantial
substantial
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
130 moby thesaurus words for "unreal":
barmecidal, barmecide, affected, air-built, airy, apocryphal,
apparent, apparitional, artificial, assumed, autistic, bastard,
bogus, brummagem, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-built, colorable,
colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, deceptive, delusional,
delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, distorted, dreamlike,
dreamy, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, erroneous,
ersatz, ethereal, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false,
falsified, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous,
feigned, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, fraudulent,
garbled, gaseous, gossamery, hypothetical, illegitimate,
illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary,
imaginational, imagined, imitation, immaterial, junky, made-up,
make-believe, man-made, merely nominal, misleading, mock, mythical,
nonexistent, not real, notional, ostensible, perverted,
phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phantomlike, phony, pinchbeck,
pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, rarefied, seeming,
self-deceptive, self-deluding, self-styled, shadowy, sham, shoddy,
simulated, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spectral, spirituous,
spurious, subtile, subtle, supposititious, synthesized, synthetic,
tenuous, theoretical, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unactual,
unauthentic, unfounded, ungenuine, unnatural, unrealistic,
unsubstantial, vaporous, visional, visionary, warped, windy
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