unreal

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. imaginary, illusionary, illusory, shadowy; imponderable, unsubstantial, fanciful, fictitious; ideal; slang, unbelievable. See imagination, nonexistence.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. visionary, delusive, deceptive, illusory, imaginary, imagined, hallucinatory, ideal, dreamlike, insubstantial, unsubstantial, nonexistent, fanciful, misleading, fictitious, theoretical, hypothetical, fabulous, chimerical, notional, whimsical, fantastic; see also unbelievable .

Ant. genuine*, real, substantial.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

imaginary, fanciful, make-believe, visionary, hallucinatory, nonexistent.

ANT.: actual, factual, genuine

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, visionary. See REAL.