unreal
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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: {existent}, {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},
{unreal}] [ant: {natural}]
4: 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}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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