unreal as an adjective: - 1
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unreal
adjective
1 unreal
Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria.
Roget 515:
imagined
etc.
v.;
ben trovato [It];
air drawn,
airbuilt†.
imagining
etc.
v.,
imaginative;
original,
inventive,
creative,
fertile.
romantic,
high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic,
unrealistic,
Utopian,
Quixotic.
ideal,
unreal;
in the clouds,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubsantial†
etc.
4;
illusory
etc.
(fallacious)
495.
fabulous,
legendary;
mythical,
mythic,
mythological;
chimerical;
imaginary,
visionary;
notional;
fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical†;
whimsical;
fairy,
fairy-like;
gestic†.
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Polish: fałszywy, nieprawdziwy
2 unreal
Not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary.
Polish: nierzeczywisty, chimeryczny, wirtualny
3 unreal
Contrived by art rather than nature.
synonym: artificial.
4 unreal
Lacking material form or substance; unreal.
synonyms: insubstantial, unsubstantial.
Roget 4:
unsubstantial;
baseless,
groundless;
ungrounded;
without foundation,
having no foundation.
visionary
etc.
(imaginary)
515;
immaterial
etc.
137;
spectral
etc.
980;
dreamy;
shadowy;
ethereal,
airy;
cloud built,
cloud formed;
gossamery,
illusory,
insubstantial,
unreal.
vacant,
vacuous;
empty
etc.
187;
eviscerated;
blank,
hollow;
nominal;
null;
inane.
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Roget 495:
erroneous,
untrue,
false,
devoid of truth,
fallacious,
apocryphal,
unreal,
ungrounded,
groundless;
unsubstantial
etc.
4;
heretical
etc.
(heterodox)
984;
unsound;
illogical
etc.
477.
inexact,
unexact inaccurate†,
incorrect;
indefinite
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
illusive,
illusory;
delusive;
mock,
ideal
etc.
(imaginary)
515;
spurious
etc.
545;
deceitful
etc.
544;
perverted.
controvertible,
unsustainable;
unauthenticated,
untrustworthy.
exploded,
refuted;
discarded.
in error,
under an error
etc.
n.;
mistaken
etc.
v.;
tripping
etc.
v.;
out,
out in one's reckoning;
aberrant;
beside the mark,
wide of the mark,
wide of the truth,
way off,
far off;
astray
etc.
(at fault)
475;
on a false scent,
on the wrong scent;
in the wrong box,
outside the ballpark;
at cross purposes,
all in the wrong;
all out.
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Roget 2:
inexistent†,
nonexistent
etc.
1;
negative,
blank;
missing,
omitted;
absent
etc.
187;
insubstantial,
shadowy,
spectral,
visionary.
unreal,
potential,
virtual;
baseless,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubstantial
etc.
4;
vain.
unborn,
uncreated†,
unbegotten,
unconceived,
unproduced,
unmade.
perished,
annihilated,
etc.
v.;
extinct,
exhausted,
gone,
lost,
vanished,
departed,
gone with the wind;
defunct
etc.
(dead)
360.
fabulous,
ideal
etc.
(imaginary)
515,
supposititious
etc.
514.
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Dutch: onstoffelijk
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