Antonyms for unreal

Grammar : Adj

Spell : uhn-ree-uhl, -reel

Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈri əl, -ˈril

Definition of unreal

Origin : c.1600, "not real," from un- (1) "not" + real (adj.). Slang sense of "wonderful, great" is first recorded 1965.
Hence horrible shadow, Vnreall mock'ry hence. ["Macbeth," III.iv.107]

adj fake, make-believe; hypothetical

Example sentences :

The garden lay before her, unreal in the beauty of moonlight.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

Pale and unreal in the moonlight, the river floated them away.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

And when he saw her face, the unreal feeling did not go away.
Extract from : « Great Uncle Hoot-Toot » by Mrs. Molesworth

And once there came to him a vision which beyond all doubt was unreal.
Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin

There was an unreal dreamlike quality about the happening to the girl.
Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley

But she felt their whole journey from London had been unreal.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

The man was incredible, unreal, fantastic, a nightmare judge.
Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini

A sick sense of the unreal held them as they gazed, frozen with horror.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various

At night the lakes are a strange, unreal world of silver lights and shadows.
Extract from : « Italy, the Magic Land » by Lilian Whiting

He looked through a haze, and what he saw was distorted, unreal, terrible.
Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace

Synonyms for unreal

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