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Unreal

adjective

Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria. "Unreal propaganda serving as news"

Not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary. "The fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy" , "The unreal world of advertising art"

Contrived by art rather than nature. Synonym: artificial. "Artificial flavoring" , "An artificial diamond" , "Artificial fibers" , "Artificial sweeteners"

Lacking material form or substance; unreal. Synonyms: insubstantial, unsubstantial. "An insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

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"Unreal" Quotes from Famous Books

... That character is genuine which seems built by nature rather than by convention, which is stuff of independence and of good courage. Nothing spurious, bastard, begotten out of true wedlock of the mind; nothing adulterated and seeming to be what it is not; nothing unreal, can ever get place among the nobility of things genuine, natural, of pure stock and unmistakable lineage. It is a prerogative of every truly human being to come out from the low estate of those who are merely gregarious and ...

— On Being Human • Woodrow Wilson

... absence, and that his aged father Laertes was wearing his life away in vain and anxious longings for his return. He also conversed with the ill-fated Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Achilles. The latter {315} bemoaned his shadowy and unreal existence, and plaintively assured his former companion-in-arms that rather would he be the poorest day-labourer on earth than reign supreme as king over the realm of shades. Ajax alone, who still brooded ...

— Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome • E.M. Berens

... future bent." If force of evidence could authorize us to believe facts inconsistent with the general laws of nature, enough might be produced in favor of the existence of the second-sight. It is called in Gaelic Taishitaraugh, from Taish, an unreal or shadowy appearance; and those possessed of the faculty are called Taishatrin, which may be aptly translated visionaries. Martin, a steady believer in the second-sight, gives the following account ...

— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... illusory, supposed, unreal, fabulous, fictitious, imaginary, supposititious, untrue, ...

— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald

... bass of the moral reformer, and the storm breath of enthusiasm was blowing to a blaze the glowing coals of his humanity. The wail of the fleeing fugitive from the house of bondage sounded no longer far away and unreal in his ears, but thrilled now right under the windows of his soul. The masonic excitement and the commotion created by the abduction of Morgan he caught up and shook before the eyes of his countrymen as an object lesson of the million-times greater wrong daily done the slaves. "All this fearful ...

— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke

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