Word Meanings - UNREALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.

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• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• FANCYMONGER
  A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
• UNREALLY
  In an unreal manner; ideally.
• TOUCHING
  Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
• TOUCHY
  Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
• FANCY
  fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. bhato shine. Cf. 1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the
• TOUCHBACK
  The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• UNREALIZE
  To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.
• UNREAL
  Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
• TOUCHHOLE
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• FANCY-SICK
  Love-sick. Shak.
• TOUCHINESS
  The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
• TOUCHSTONE
  Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite. 2. Fig.:
• UNREALITY
  The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.
• TOUCH-ME-NOT
  See Impatiens. Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
• FANCY-FREE
  Free from the power of love. "In maiden meditation, fancy- free." Shak.
• IDEALIZE
  To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2. (more info) 1. To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.
• TOUCHDOWN
  The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.
• TOUCH-PAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• DISFANCY
  To dislike.
• INFANCY
  The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. (more info) 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their
• CARTOUCH
  An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. (more info) cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. A cartridge
• RETOUCH
  To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork. (more info) 1. To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.