Meaning | lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria. |
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Examples | - "ghosts and other unreal entities"
- "unreal propaganda serving as news"
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Attribute of | reality, realness, realism | The state of being actual or real |
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Narrower | dreamed | conceived of or imagined or hoped for |
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envisioned, pictured, visualized, visualised | Seen in the mind as a mental image |
eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil | creating the illusion of seeing reality |
fabled, legendary | celebrated in fable or legend |
fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious | formed or conceived by the imagination |
fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological | Based on or told of in traditional stories |
fanciful, imaginary, notional | not based on fact |
fantastic, fantastical | Existing in fancy only |
hallucinatory | Characterized by or characteristic of hallucination |
illusional, illusionary | marked by or producing illusion / illusion / illusion |
illusive, illusory | Based on or having the nature of an illusion / illusion |
make-believe, pretend | imagined as in a play |
See also | artificial, unreal | contrived by art rather than nature |
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counterfeit, imitative | not genuine |
insincere | lacking sincerity |
supernatural | not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws |
unrealistic | not realistic |
Opposite | real, existent | Being or occurring in fact or actuality |
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Spanish | irreal |
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Catalan | irreal |
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Nouns | unreality | the quality possessed by something that is unreal |
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unreality | the state of being insubstantial or imaginary |