Unreal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unreal \Un*re"al\, a.
     Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  unreal
       adj 1: 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: {real}]
       2: 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)}]
       3: contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers";
          "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond";
          "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: {artificial}]
          [ant: {natural}]
       4: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as
          insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the
          horizon" [syn: {insubstantial}, {unsubstantial}] [ant: {substantial}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "unreal":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, affected, air-built, airy, apocryphal,
     apparent, apparitional, artificial, assumed, autistic, 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