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Definitions for: Unreal
[adj] lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"
[adj] contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
[adj] lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"
[adj] 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"
Webster (1913) Definition: Un*re"al, a.
Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, arranged, artificial, bleached, cardboard, celluloid, colored, coloured, conventionalised, conventionalized, deceptive, delusory, dreamed(a), dreamlike, dummy, dyed, envisioned, ersatz, ethereal, eye-deceiving, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, fake, false, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, faux, fictional, fictitious, hallucinatory, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imagined, imitation, insubstantial, invented, legendary, made-up, make-believe, man-made, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological, near, notional, painted, phantom, pictured, play(a), pretend, semisynthetic, shadowy, simulated, staged, stylised, stylized, substitute(p), surreal, synthetic, trompe-l'oeil(a), unlifelike, unsubstantial, visualised, visualized, wraithlike
Antonyms: existent, material, natural, real, real(a), substantial
See Also: counterfeit, imitative, immaterial, insincere, nonmaterial, supernatural, unreal, unrealistic
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