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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria;
- Example: "ghosts and other unreal entities"
- Example: "unreal propaganda serving as news"

2. not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary;
- Example: "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"
- Example: "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"
- Example: "the unreal world of advertising art"

3. contrived by art rather than nature;
- Example: "artificial flowers"
- Example: "artificial flavoring"
- Example: "an artificial diamond"
- Example: "artificial fibers"
- Example: "artificial sweeteners"
[syn: artificial, unreal]

4. lacking material form or substance; unreal;
- Example: "as insubstantial as a dream"
- Example: "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"
[syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unreal \Un*re"al\, a.
   Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
   [1913 Webster]


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]


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