unreal

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adjective

1. lacking in reality or substance or genuineness;
not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria (Freq. 1)
- ghosts and other unreal entities
- unreal propaganda serving as news
• Ant:
real
• Similar to:
dreamed, envisioned, pictured, visualized, visualised,
eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil, fabled, legendary, fabricated, fancied,
fictional, fictitious, fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic,
mythological, fanciful, imaginary, notional, fantastic, fantastical,
fantastical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory,
make-believe, pretend
• See Also:
artificial, counterfeit, imitative, insincere, supernatural, unrealistic
• Derivationally related forms:
unreality
• Attrubites:
reality, realness, realism
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
• Similar to:
deceptive, delusory, dreamlike, surreal, phantom
3. lacking material form or substance;
unreal
- as insubstantial as a dream
- an insubstantial mirage on the horizon
• Syn:
insubstantial, unsubstantial
• Ant:
substantial (for: insubstantial)
• Similar to:
aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal,
shadowy, wraithlike, stringy
• See Also:
immaterial, nonmaterial
• Derivationally related forms:
unreality, unsubstantialize (for: unsubstantial), insubstantiality (for: insubstantial)
• Attrubites:
substantiality, substantialness, solidness
4. contrived by art rather than nature
- artificial flowers
- artificial flavoring
- an artificial diamond
- artificial fibers
- artificial sweeteners
• Syn:
artificial
• Ant:
natural (for: artificial)
• Similar to:
arranged, staged, bionic, bleached, colored,
coloured, dyed, cardboard, unlifelike, celluloid, synthetic,
conventionalized, conventionalised, stylized, stylised, dummy, ersatz,
substitute, factitious, fake, false, faux, imitation,
simulated, man-made, semisynthetic, near, painted
• See Also:
counterfeit, imitative
• Derivationally related forms:
artificiality (for: artificial)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  insubstantial, unsubstantial, artificial
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  substantial, real, material, natural, real(a), existent