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irreal

[ih-ree-uhl, ih-reel]

adjective

  1. unreal.



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Other Word Forms

  • irreality noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of irreal1

First recorded in 1940–45; ir- 2 + real 1
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Example Sentences

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Mahoney’s twists and reveals, keen bits of insight and irreal imagery — with the grotesque often being presented as beautiful — prevent this odd couple from becoming cloying.

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There is something slightly irreal and super-bright about Jones’s prose — it conveys a sense that her knowledge of the world she’s describing is also second-order, i.e. derived from books, or at least refracted through them, rather than observed first hand, unmediated.

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Like them, Folon took a strong turn for the fantastic, serving up the quotidian in images dreamy or irreal.

The small landholdings of Hans at Moehra are not real, but irreal estate.

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Il me semble que les personnages de Stevenson ont justement cette espèce de réalisme irréal. 

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