unreal

adjectives

lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria

"ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"

unreal

is derived from

unreality

is derived from

unreality

antonym

real

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conceived of or imagined or hoped for

"his dreamed symphony that would take the world of music by storm"

dreamed

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seen in the mind as a mental image

"the glory of his envisioned future"; "the snow-covered Alps pictured in her imagination"; "the visualized scene lacked the ugly details of real life"

envisioned, pictured, visualised, visualized

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creating the illusion of seeing reality

"the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art"

eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil

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celebrated in fable or legend

"the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James"

fabled, legendary

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formed or conceived by the imagination

"a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"

fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious

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based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity

"mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn"

fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological

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not based on fact; unreal

"the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

fanciful, imaginary, notional

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existing in fancy only

"fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

fantastic, fantastical

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characterized by or characteristic of hallucination

"the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford

hallucinatory

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marked by or producing illusion

"illusionary stage effects"

illusional, illusionary

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based on or having the nature of an illusion

"illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

illusive, illusory

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imagined as in a play

"the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"

make-believe, pretend

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not genuine; imitating something superior

"counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

counterfeit, imitative

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contrived by art rather than nature

"artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

artificial, unreal

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not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material

"supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"

supernatural

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not realistic

"unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"

unrealistic

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lacking sincerity

"a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

insincere

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the state of being actual or real

"the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"

realism, reality, realness

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"

unreal

antonym

real

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causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

"deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

deceptive, delusory

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resembling a dream

"night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream"

dreamlike, surreal

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