unreal
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4.2
- adjective
- /ʌnˈrɪəl/
:
irreal
- The dream was so vivid that it felt unreal, as if I were living in another world.
- unreal world
- unreal images
- seems unreal
So nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal ultimately exists.
- So nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal ultimately exists.
- It just, it was just, it was just, it seemed unreal, to put it bluntly.
- Yeah but OP does respond and goes it feels unreal like this is my dad.
- It's regarding what is real as unreal and vice versa.
- Don't don't overrate the significance of the unreal world.
- Now, however, he has emerged from his unreal existence.
- I was just like, it's happened so it felt unreal to me lad.
- It's like the world that we live in today is unreal.
Examples
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Here we are finally led, in the words of the Upanishads, from the unreal to the real.
Academic text (1990) -
There was a sky so blue it seemed unreal, like the sky in a magazine ad.
Fiction book (1996) -
You want to get back to this unreal life that you had before.
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I mean, it's unreal the amount of space there is to spread out.
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I mean, it's just unreal how much we're going to get this year.
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The afternoon seemed flat and metallic, unreal even while it happened.
Fiction book (1994) -
A world so unreal and yet, at once, so frightening.
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Vicky, too, was lost in memories of a night that now seemed more and more unreal.
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It got so I couldn't tell the real from the unreal.
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The rest of her seemed unreal and doll-like, weighed down by the heaviness of her gown.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
106
3.4
Made up in stories or in your mind, not real
81
7.0
Strange like a dream and not real
31
5.1
Not real and made up
21
8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
12
7.0
Seeming to be real but not really there
9
5.7
Having a calm, unreal quality as if you are half asleep
9
6.8
Not solid or strong and not filling
1
9.9
Looking like a ghost and seeming unreal
1
9.9
Only in the imagination and very unlikely to happen
1
7.3
Not solid or real and having little value
1
5.5
Ideas or images that exist only in the mind and are not real
Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal
Being unreal and like a dream
Appears like a ghost, not solid or easy to see
Not real and only imagined in the mind, often used in grammar for events that did not happen
Not like real life and missing natural feeling
Antonyms
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unreal comes from the un- part meaning 'not' and real meaning 'actual' or 'true'. So unreal literally means 'not real', which helps you think of something as strange, dreamlike, or imagined.