Synonyms of the word

unreal

• adj. fake; not real.
• adj. (slang) larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.

aerial

• adj. Living or taking place in the air.
• adj. (now literary or historical) Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
• adj. Positioned high up; elevated.
• adj. Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
• adj. Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
• adj. Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals…
• n. A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
• n. (photography) Aerial photography.

aeriform

• adj. Pertaining to air.
• adj. Having a form similar to that of air.
• adj. Light, unsubstantial, or unstable.

aery

• n. Alternative form of eyrie.
• n. Alternative form of aerie.
• adj. (poetic) aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.

airy

• adj. Consisting of air.
• adj. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
• adj. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
• adj. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
• adj. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
• adj. Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary.
• adj. Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial.
• adj. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
• adj. (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

arranged

• v. simple past tense and past participle of arrange.

artificial

• adj. Man-made; of artifice.
• adj. False, misleading.
• adj. Unnatural.

bionic

• adj. (not comparable) Related to bionics.
• adj. Of a biological organism, having been enhanced by electronic or mechanical parts; cyborg.
• adj. superhuman.

bleached

• adj. whitened; made white using bleach.
• adj. Having the hair lightened by bleaching.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of bleach.

cardboard

• n. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
• adj. Made of or resembling cardboard; (figuratively) flat or flavorless.

celluloid

• n. Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic…
• n. (figuratively, often used attributively) The genre of cinema; film.

colored

• adj. Having a color.
• adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.
• adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.
• adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
• adj. (US, now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
• adj. (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
• n. (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
• n. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of color.

coloured

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• n. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of colour.

conventionalised

• v. simple past tense and past participle of conventionalise.

conventionalized

• v. simple past tense and past participle of conventionalize.

counterfeit

• adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
• adj. Inauthentic.
• adj. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
• n. A non-genuine article; a fake.
• n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
• n. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
• n. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
• v. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
• v. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand…

deceptive

• adj. Misleading, likely or attempting to deceive.

delusory

• adj. tending to delude.

dreamed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dream.

dreamlike

• adj. Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.

dummy

• n. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
• n. An unintelligent person.
• n. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
• n. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
• n. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
• n. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a…
• n. (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
• n. (Britain) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
• n. (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
• n. (programming) An unused parameter or value.
• v. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
• v. To feint.

dyed

• adj. Coloured or tinted with dye.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dye.

envisioned

• v. simple past tense and past participle of envision.

ersatz

• adj. Made in imitation; artificial, especially of a poor quality.
• n. Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute.

ethereal

• adj. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the…
• adj. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy,…
• adj. Delicate, light and airy.
• adj. (chemistry) To do with ether.

fabled

• adj. Known only in fables; fictitious.
• adj. Made known by fables; legendary, famed.

fabricated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of fabricate.
• adj. constructed or assembled.
• adj. false in the sense of made-up, constructed.

fabulous

• adj. Of or relating to fable, myth or legend.
• adj. Characteristic of fables; marvelous, extraordinary, incredible.
• adj. Fictional or not believable; made up.
• adj. (obsolete) Known for telling fables or falsehoods; unreliable.
• adj. (slang) Very good; outstanding, wonderful.
• adj. (slang or euphemistic) Gay or pertaining to gay people.
• adj. (slang) Camp, effeminate.
• adj. (slang) Fashionable, glamorous.

factitious

• adj. Created by humans; artificial.
• adj. Counterfeit, fabricated, fake.

fake

• adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
• adj. Deliberately fabricated in order to deceive.
• n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
• n. A trick; a swindle.
• n. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling…
• v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
• v. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
• v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
• v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
• n. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or…
• v. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers…

false

• adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
• adj. Based on factually incorrect premises.
• adj. Spurious, artificial.
• adj. (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
• adj. Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
• adj. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
• adj. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
• adj. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
• adj. (music) Out of tune.
• adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
• n. One of two options on a true-or-false test.

fancied

• v. simple past tense and past participle of fancy.

fanciful

• adj. imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined.

fantastic

• adj. Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
• adj. Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
• adj. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
• adj. Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).

fantastical

• adj. Of or pertaining to fantasy.
• adj. fanciful or whimsical.
• adj. fantastic.

faux

• adj. Fake or artificial.

fictional

• adj. Invented, as opposed to real.

fictitious

• adj. Not real; invented; contrived.

hallucinatory

• adj. Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.

illusional

• adj. Illusory; being or pertaining to an illusion.

illusionary

• adj. Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion.

illusive

• adj. Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable…

illusory

• adj. Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.

imaginary

• adj. Existing only in the imagination.
• adj. (mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the…
• n. Imagination; fancy.
• n. (mathematics) An imaginary quantity.

imagined

• adj. Conceived or envisioned in the mind.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of imagin.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of imagine.

imitation

• n. The act of imitating.
• n. A copy.
• n. (attributive) not the real thing.

imitative

• adj. Imitating; copying; not original.
• adj. Modelled after another thing.

immaterial

• adj. Having no matter or substance.
• adj. (law, accounting) So insubstantial as to be irrelevant.

insincere

• adj. Not genuinely meaning what has been expressed; not sincere; artificial.
• adj. Not serious.

insubstantial

• adj. Lacking substance; not real or strong.

invented

• adj. fictional, made up, imaginary.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of invent.

legendary

• adj. Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
• adj. Appearing (solely) in legends.
• adj. Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
• adj. Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories.
• n. (obsolete) A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
• n. (obsolete) One who relates legends.

made-up

• adj. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
• adj. invented or fabricated.
• adj. changed by the application of cosmetics.
• adj. arranged or put together.
• adj. (Britain, regional) delighted, pleased, thrilled.

make-believe

• n. The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.

man-made

• adj. Created by a human.

mythic

• adj. Larger-than-life.
• adj. Mythical; existing in myth.

mythical

• adj. Existing in myth.
• adj. (by extension) Not real; false or fabricated.

mythologic

• adj. (mythology) Of or pertaining to mythology.

mythological

• adj. Of, or relating to myths or mythology.
• adj. Legendary.
• adj. (colloquial) Imaginary.

near

• adj. Physically close.
• adj. Closely connected or related.
• adj. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
• adj. Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
• adj. So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
• adj. (of an event) Approaching.
• adj. Approximate, almost.
• adj. (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
• adj. (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
• adj. (obsolete, slang) Stingy; parsimonious.
• adv. Having a small intervening distance with regard to something.
• adv. (colloquial) nearly.
• prep. Close to, in close proximity to.
• prep. Close to in time.
• v. To come closer to; to approach.
• n. The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.

nonmaterial

• adj. Not material; apart from matter.

notional

• adj. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
• adj. Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
• adj. (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
• adj. (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount.

painted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of paint.
• adj. Coated with paint.
• adj. Depicted in paint.
• adj. Colorful, as if painted.
• adj. Wearing makeup.

phantom

• n. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something…
• n. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
• adj. Illusive.
• adj. Fictitious or nonexistent.

pictured

• v. simple past tense and past participle of picture.
• adj. furnished with pictures.
• adj. represented by a picture.

pretend

• v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
• v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
• v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
• v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

semisynthetic

• adj. (organic chemistry) synthesized by chemically modifying a natural material.

shadowy

• adj. In shadow; darkened by shadows.
• adj. (of character) Dark, obscure.

simulated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of simulate.
• adj. made to imitate something else; artificial.

staged

• adj. Planned, prepared.
• adj. Intended for the stage as in a theater.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of stage.

stringy

• adj. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
• adj. (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
• adj. (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.

stylised

• adj. (British spelling) alternative form of stylized.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of stylise.

stylized

• v. simple past tense and past participle of stylize.
• adj. made to conform to some style.
• adj. represented according to some convention, rather than in a realistic or literal manner.

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

supernatural

• adj. Above nature; beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force…
• adj. Not of the usual; not natural; altered by forces that are not understood fully if at all.
• n. (countable) A supernatural being.
• n. (uncountable) Supernatural beings and events collectively. (When used with definite article: "the supernatural"…

surreal

• adj. Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
• n. (mathematics) surreal number.

synthetic

• adj. Of, or relating to synthesis.
• adj. (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical…
• adj. Artificial, not genuine.
• adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.
• adj. (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate…
• n. A synthetic compound.

trompe-l'oeil

• n. Alternative spelling of trompe l'oeil.

unlifelike

• adj. Not lifelike.

unreal

• adj. fake; not real.
• adj. (slang) larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.

unrealistic

• adj. Not realistic.

unsubstantial

• adj. (archaic) Alternative form of insubstantial.

visualised

• v. simple past tense and past participle of visualise.

visualized

• v. simple past tense and past participle of visualize.
• adj. Having been the subject of visualization; having had (its) appearance or existence imagined or designed.

wraithlike

• adj. Resembling a wraith; ghostly.