unreal
not real or actual.
imaginary; fanciful; illusory; delusory; fantastic.
lacking in truth; not genuine; false; artificial: unreal propaganda serving as news.
Origin of unreal
1Other words for unreal
Other words from unreal
- un·re·al·ly, adverb
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How to use unreal in a sentence
“The composure he’s managed to maintain is unreal,” Pat Cavlin, a meteorologist in Florida, marveled on Twitter.
A beloved Alabama weatherman learned mid-broadcast that a tornado hit home. He got back on air. | Hannah Knowles | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostIt was that easy, as spectacular and unreal as Reagan’s Star Wars defense plan to shoot down Soviet missiles from spaceships.
How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus) | Kurt Andersen | March 21, 2021 | FreakonomicsThere, brilliant and unreal, the city had its life, as Brownsville was ours.
Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block | Liza Weisstuch | March 4, 2021 | Washington PostInstead, we can think about the explosion of attempted 3-pointers, Harden’s unreal efficiency and that both reshaped how every team approaches offense.
One Super Bowl Isn’t Enough For Some Legacies, Apparently | Sarah Shachat | January 19, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightShe describes her first efforts at awareness in terms of “fleeting memories, if, indeed, they be memories, it all seems very unreal.”
Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives - Issue 93: Forerunners | Alan Lightman, Hope Jahren, Robert Sapolsky, | December 2, 2020 | Nautilus
The busy hostile world outside is mystifying and a little unreal.
Everything seems a little intense, vivid, almost unreal, but he seems not to notice.
Carsten Stroud’s Book Bag: My Top Five Horror Classics | Carsten Stroud | July 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTStiff cliched characters, unreal situations, and a bit too much autobiography.
This would, Summerscale points out, “render the moment of their intimacy at once real and unreal, a fact and a fiction.”
A Very Scandalous Diary: Kate Summerscale’s ‘Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace’ | Lucy Scholes | June 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe put together an unreal show...every performer dedicated his or her music to Whitney.
The Saga of Whitney Houston’s Last Movie, ‘Sparkle’ | Howard Rosenman | February 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEven as I looked I saw the features of a human countenance—and yet not human either, so spectral was it, so unreal and strange.
Uncanny Tales | VariousHer own like experiences seemed far away, unreal, and only half remembered.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIt was all unreal, as unreal as the baseless fabric of a dream; and yet it was real, wondrously real.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingThe way seemed perfectly plain, and yet everything seemed intangible, unreal.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingHope had gone, dreams were unreal and vanishing as the mist that crawled along the bog-pools at night.
The Underworld | James C. Welsh
British Dictionary definitions for unreal
/ (ʌnˈrɪəl) /
imaginary or fanciful or seemingly so: an unreal situation
having no actual existence or substance
insincere or artificial
Derived forms of unreal
- unreally, adverb
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