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
- 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
- aerial
- artificial
- chimerical
- delusive
- dreamlike
- fabled
- fabulous
- false
- fanciful
- fictitious
- fictive
- figmental
- hallucinatory
- ideal
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- impalpable
- insincere
- insubstantial
- intangible
- invented
- legendary
- misleading
- mock
- mythical
- nebulous
- nonexistent
- notional
- ostensible
- phantasmagoric
- pretended
- reachy
- romantic
- seeming
- sham
- storybook
- suppositious
- supposititious
- theoretical
- unbelievable
- unsubstantial
- visionary
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