Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not real or substantial; illusory.
- adj. Slang So remarkable as to elicit disbelief; fantastic.
- adj. Surreal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. contrived by art rather than nature
- adj. lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
- adj. lacking material form or substance; unreal.
- adj. not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
Etymologies
- Negating prefix un- + adjective real (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Only what you call the unreal can last unchanged for a while,' the painter said, catching at the word she had used, and thinking more of his art than of her.”
“What I find to be even more unreal is the number of these students who are admitted to universities.”
Test Scores and Economic Performance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“That gash is frickin 'unreal - looked like a great PPV.”
“The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded.”
“And even though the annual address is one of the few things you can watch on commercial television without ads, I chose to TiVo it and watch it a few hours later, in unreal time.”
“Something a little unreal is the hardcover edition of the book.”
“Undercover fascists will call it unreal, un-American, and propaganda, and say that it only harms the cause of Jewish people by calling attention to it.”
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
“Everything happens in unreal, slow and ponderous time.”
“Charged with an impossible task of remaining realistic in unreal settings, character is split, its integrity opened to the vacillations of external context.”
“Calling it unreal is likely a typical reaction for visitors to the southern Colorado River drainage, a high-altitude desert of stunning beauty -- some of it natural, some not.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unreal’.
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Adjectives applicable to bubble tea
chewy, milky, weird, warm, cold, sweet, foamy, curious, unreal, soft, sloshy, sucky and 4 more...
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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The History of Cool
Words that mean "cool" around the world and through the ages.
cool, awesome, wild, stylin', groovy, neat, nifty, swell, great, tubular, radical, bitchin' and 188 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )
related:
noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 212 more... -
SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1500 more...
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Non-existence
inexistence, nullity, nihility, tabula rasa, nonentity, negativeness, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extirpation, obliteration and 15 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Probability
likelihood, chance, odds, possibility, take a risk, unlikely, fantastic, imaginary, unreal, by chance, accidentally, 50% chance of rain and 1 more...
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
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feelings for my robotic world
these words can break your computation
blatant, insurrection, emphatic, desensitized, unreal, fleeting, loogie
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