Word Meanings - UNREAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNREAL)
- Fanciful
- Grotesque
- chimerical
- unreal
- imaginary
- quaint
- eccentric
- freakish
- humorsome
- erroneous
- capricious
- whimsical
- erratic
- absurd
- fitful
- Fictitious
- Unreal
- suppositious
- spurious
- Ideal
- Mental
- notional
- conceptional
- intellectual
- creative
- spiritual
- poetical
- supposititious
- fictitious
- fanciful
- imaginative
- Illusive
- Deceptive
- vision try
- disappointing
- fugitive
- false
- delusive
- illusory
- Vain
- Empty
- worthless
- fruitless
- unsatisfying
- unavailing
- idle
- ineffectual
- egotistic
- showy
- conceited
- arrogant
Related words: (words related to UNREAL)
- FUGITIVELY
In a fugitive manner. - ECCENTRICITY
The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. (more info) 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity. - FALSENESS
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his - VISIONARY
1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given - IMAGINARY
Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity - CAPRICIOUS
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; - ECCENTRICALLY
In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace. - IDEALISTIC
Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - FALSE-FACED
Hypocritical. Shak. - INTELLECTUALIST
1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - ILLUSIVENESS
The quality of being illusive; deceptiveness; false show. - ABSURDNESS
Absurdity. - CONCEPTIONAL
Pertaining to conception. - CHIMERICAL
Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive. - CONCEITEDLY
1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically. - ILLUSIVELY
In a illusive manner; falsely. - ERRONEOUS
1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman. 2. Misleading; - ECCENTRICAL
See ECCENTRIC - THYROIDEAL
Thyroid. - OMENTAL
Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta. - EXPERIMENTAL
1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion. - ALIMENTALLY
So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - ACQUAINTANCE
1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract - RE-CREATIVE
Creating anew; as, re-creative power. - MISDIVISION
Wrong division. - ELEMENTAL
1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. - ACQUAINTED
Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t. - DISACQUAINT
To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.