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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | unreal | Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness |
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| 2 | unreal | Not actually such | |
| 3 | unreal, artificial | Contrived by art rather than nature | |
| 4 | unreal, insubstantial, unsubstantial | Lacking material form or substance |
| Sounds | ahnriy'l |
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| Rhymes | abele, anneal, appeal, and 61 more rhymes in iyl... |
| Meaning | Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness. Not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria. |
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| Examples | "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news" |
| Contrary | real, existent |
| Similar | dreamed; envisioned, pictured, visualized, visualised; eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil; fabled, legendary; fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, invented, made-up; fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological; fanciful, imaginary, imagined, notional; fantastic, fantastical; hallucinatory; illusional, illusionary; illusive, illusory; make-believe, pretend |
| See also | counterfeit, imitative; artificial, unreal; supernatural; unrealistic; insincere |
| Attribute of | reality, realness, realism |
| Nouns | unreality; unreality |
| Meaning | Not actually such. Being or seeming fanciful or imaginary. |
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| Examples | "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art" |
| Contrary | real |
| Similar | deceptive, delusory; dreamlike, surreal; phantom |
| Meaning | Contrived by art rather than nature. |
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| Synonyms | artificial |
| Contrary | natural |
| Similar | 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, synthetic; near; painted |
| See also | counterfeit, imitative; unreal |
| Meaning | Lacking material form or substance. Unreal. |
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| Synonyms | insubstantial, unsubstantial |
| Contrary | substantial, real, material |
| Similar | aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal; shadowy, wraithlike; stringy |
| See also | immaterial, nonmaterial |
| Attribute of | substantiality, substantialness, solidness |
| Nouns | unreality |
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