Being actually such in almost every respect:
— The once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin.

synonym: practical.

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.    ... show more

Roget 5: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical^†; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous^†, haematobious^†, syngenic^†; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite^†; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate^†, ingenite^†; indigenous; in the grain etc. n.; bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal etc. 221; to the manner born; virtual.    characteristic etc. (special) 79, (indicative) 550; invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed.    ... show more

Existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact.

Polish: wirtualny