'Unreal' definitions:
Definition of 'unreal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news" [ant: existent, real]
adjective
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" [ant: real(a)]
adjective
Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: artificial, unreal] [ant: natural]
adjective
Lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial]
Definition of 'Unreal'
From: GCIDE
- Unreal \Un*re"al\, a. Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unreal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- air-built,
- airy,
- apocryphal,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- autistic,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- chimeric,
- chimerical,
- cloud-built,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- distorted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- ethereal,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsified,
- fancied,
- fanciful,
- fantastic,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feigned,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figmental,
- fraudulent,
- garbled,
- gaseous,
- gossamery,
- hypothetical,
- illegitimate,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imaginational,
- imagined,
- imitation,
- immaterial,
- junky,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- merely nominal,
- misleading,
- mock,
- mythical,
- nonexistent,
- not real,
- notional,
- ostensible,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- phantomlike,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- rarefied,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- self-styled,
- shadowy,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spirituous,
- spurious,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supposititious,
- synthesized,
- synthetic,
- tenuous,
- theoretical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unactual,
- unauthentic,
- unfounded,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unrealistic,
- unsubstantial,
- vaporous,
- visional,
- visionary,
- warped,
- windy