unreal
pronunciation
How to pronounce unreal in British English:
UK [ˌʌnˈrɪəl]
How to pronounce unreal in American English:
US [ˌʌnˈriəl]
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- Adjective:
- lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
- not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
- contrived by art rather than nature
- lacking material form or substance; unreal
Word Origin
- unreal (adj.)
- c. 1600, "not real," from un- (1) "not" + real (adj.). Meaning "impractical, visionary" is by 1660s. Slang sense of "wonderful, great" is first recorded 1965. Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. [Eliot, "The Waste Land," 1922]
Antonym
Example
- 1. They know that the last few years have been a bit unreal .
- 2. I sometimes felt so ungrounded , so immaterial and unreal , that I thought I might just drift away .
- 3. Just as artificial sweeteners can be sweeter than sugar , unreal events can be more moving than real ones .
- 4. Some of the photographers could not go without manipulating with the pictures a little just to highlight the funny nature of the real-life situations or create some unreal , yet very funny ones .
- 5. Your great father king-my dear husband , who is leading brave men of the removing unreal enmpire , fighting with the tusk king at the border.dead or alive ? No one knows .