Unreal

Definition: Unreal

Unreal

Adjective

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".

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".

3. Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners".

4. Lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unreal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references)

Synonyms: Unreal

Error

Adjective: erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical; (heterodox); unsound; illogical.

Imagination

Ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus; unsubsantial; illusory; (fallacious).

Inexistence

Unreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibus; unsubstantial; vain.

Unsubstantiality

Visionary; (imaginary); immaterial; spectral; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal.

Crosswords: Unreal

It makes the crazy normal, and the unreal real. (Freaky Links; writing credit: Mark Verheiden; Juan Carlos Coto)

It's like living something unreal. (Predatori di Atlantide, I; writing credit: Tito Carpi; Vincenzo Mannino)

I still can feel and it's so unreal (Because Of You; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Anders Bagge, Arntor Birgisson, Christian Karlsson, and Patrick Tucker)

It seems unreal to me that (Without You; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

'Cause what she says sounds so unreal (She's So High; performing artist: Tal Bachman)

We are reasons so unreal (Perfect; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

Unreal II: The Awakening (2003)

The Unreal Story of Pro Wrestling (1999)

Unreal TV (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal (reference)

• No Need for Tenchi!: Unreal Genius (reference)

• The Unreal McCoy (reference)

• Unreal Championship (reference)

• Unreal Level Design (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Unreal Story of Pro Wrestling (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Keep It Unreal (reference)

• Unreal (reference)

• Unreal! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Unreal Championship (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Soon finding, however, that either she or the image was unreal, she turned elsewhere for better pastime.

Such magnificent and beautiful things seemed unreal to her.

All the descriptions of fierce love and hatred which he had met in books had seemed to him therefore unreal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

joreal (aerial, aeriform, imaginary, insubstantial, notional, off balance, unsubstantial), jo i vërtetë (mendacious, untrue), ireal, imagjinar (fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, imaginative, visional, visionary), i pabesueshëm (anecdotic, fabulous, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable), fiktiv (fictitious, imaginary). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, sham, simulate, snide, spurious, untrue, untruthful), ‏مصطنع (artificial, mannered, stagy, theatrical), ‏وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), ‏غير حقيقي (ostensible, pious), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious), ‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

въображаем (abstract, fancy, fictional, ideal, imaginary, mythical, mythological, notional, phantom, visional, visionary), нереален (aerial, aeriform, chimerical, fanciful, ideal, insubstantial, metaphysical, unsubstantial, vaporous), недействителен (inofficious, inoperative, invalid, nude, null, null and void, shadowy, unverifiable, void), изкуствен (affected, artificial, factitious, false, imitation, man-made, mimic, pinchbeck, theatrical, unnatural), измамен (deceitful, deceptive, done, double dealing, fallacious, put-up-on, screwed up), илюзорен (delusive, delusory, illusional, illusive, illusory, insubstantial, phantom, visionary). (various references)

Chinese 

虚幻, 伋 . (various references)

Czech

zdánlivý (apparent, ostensible, seeming, specious), neskuteèný (out of this world). (various references)

Farsi 

وهمی (Bizarre, Illusive, Illusory, Imaginary, Uncanny, Unrealistic), واهی (Airy, Romantic, Unrealistic, Unsubstantial(Ity)), تصوری (Brainchild, Conceptual, Imaginable, Imaginary, Romantic, Unrealistic), خیالی (Abstract, Bizarre, Brainchild, Dreamy, Image, Imaginary, Phantom, Poetic, Romantic, Unrealistic, Visionary). (various references)

Finnish

epätodellinen (untrue to life). (various references)

French

irréel, incroyable (unbelievable). (various references)

German

unwirklich (abstract, insubstantial), irreal (unreally). (various references)

Greek 

μη πραγματικόσ, φανταστικόσ (fancied, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fictitious, imaginary, notional, vaporous, visionary), ανύπαρκτοσ (absent, imaginary, nonexistent). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא ממשי, �"מיו� י (airy fairy, fabulous, fairy, fancied, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, phantom, romantic, utopian, visionary), בלתי ריאלי. (various references)

Hungarian

irreális (fanciful, fantastic). (various references)

Italian

irreale (dreamy, fanciful). (various references)

Pig Latin

ealunray

Portuguese

quimérico (chimerical, insubstantial, visional), irreal (airy, artificial, dreamlike, hollow, insubstantial, notional, phantasmal, shadowy, visional), imaginário (aerial, airy, etherial, fancy, fantastic, fictional, notional, of fantasy, overground), ilusório (colorable, colourable, deceptive, delusive, elusive, misleading, skin-deep, specious), fictício (assumed, bogus, fairy, fictitious, make-believe), fantástico (chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, of fantasy, smashing, stupendous, whimsical), falaz (fallacious). (various references)

Romanian

nereal (illusive, illusory), ireal (aerial, aeriform, cardboard, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, imaginary, phantasmal, vaporous), imaginar (aerial, fairy, fancied, fanciful, imaginary, notional, subjective, visional, visionary, would be), fictiv (assumed, bogus, dummy, fictional, fictitious, fictitiously, fictive, sham), închipuit (conceited, false, fancied, fictitious, imaginary, notional, overweening, visional). (various references)

Russian 

нереальный (aerial, aeriform, illusory, insubstantial, unrealistic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vazdušast (aeriform, airy, imaginary, light, puffy), nestvaran (aeriform, chimerical, fanciful), nerealan (unrealistic). (various references)

Spanish

irreal (fantastic, fantastical). (various references)

Swedish

overklig (fancied, illusive, illusory, insubstantial, phantasmal). (various references)

Turkish

sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, untrue, untruthful), hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, Faerie, faery, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, visionary), gerçek dışı (delusive, fanciful, imaginary, insubstantial, phantasmal, unsubstantial), düşsel (fictional, imaginary, utopian, visionary). (various references)

Ukrainian

несправжній (mimic, pasty), нереальний (aerial, aeriform, airy, delusive, delusory, imaginary, unsubstantial, vaporous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không thực tế (dreamy, illusory, impractical, romantic, theoretic, theoretical, unpractical), không thực (phanstasmal, phantasmic), h o huyền. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "unreal": unrealistic, unrealistically, unrealities, unreality, unrealizable, unrealized, unreally. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unreal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inreal, Munkedal, uerial, uirrel, undealt, unea, unkeel, unream, unrole, unveal, urel, urenal, urnae, Urola. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: neural.

-1 letter: learn, lunar, renal, ulnae, ulnar, ureal.

-2 letters: earl, earn, elan, lane, lean, lear, luna, lune, lure, near, nurl, rale, real, rule, rune, ulan, ulna, urea.

-3 letters: ale, ane, are, ear, eau, era, ern, lar, lea, leu, nae, ran, rue, run, urn.

-4 letters: ae, al, an, ar, el, en, er, la, na, ne, nu, re.

+1 letter: aleuron, flaneur, frenula, funeral, granule, launder, lucarne, lurdane, nebular, neurula, neutral, nuclear, numeral, ranulae, unclear, unlearn, unravel, venular.

+2 letters: aleurone, aleurons, auntlier, burnable, caruncle, cerulean, dentural, flaneurs, flaunter, fraulein, funerals, funereal, granules, inhauler, launcher, launders, lucarnes, lurdanes, mensural, neurally, neuronal, neurosal, neurulae, neurulas, neutrals, nucellar, numerals, outlearn, pendular, prunable, prunella, purslane, relaunch, retinula, revenual, ruinable, supernal, tenurial, turnable, underlap, underlay, unlearns, unlearnt, unloader, unravels, unreally, uplander, urbanely.

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