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Synonyms & Antonyms for unreal
Synonyms
absurd, bizarre, crazy, fanciful, fantastic (also fantastical), foolish, insane, nonsensical, preposterous, wild
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The city of Copiapó appeared like a mirage, shimmering and unreal. — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, "From Buenos Aires to the Chilean Coast: A Road Trip Across South America," 22 Aug. 2019 But the deeper themes at work, about the growing sense that our world is fundamentally an unreal one, could click perfectly with viewers upon the film’s release. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "The Matrix 4 Could Be Just What Hollywood Needs," 21 Aug. 2019 Southampton has a diverse population, which includes—along with Thurston Howell-ish blue bloods and unreal housewives—many middle-class residents, and members of the Shinnecock tribe, whose reservation borders the village. — Bob Morris, The New Yorker, "How Old Are You, Mr. Mayor?," 19 Aug. 2019 The unreal space of early video games is gone, and the artist takes advantage of the architecture, spiraling dizzyingly up the tower’s staircase. — Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com, "Fairy tales, video games, and hard labor in this artist’s hallucinatory films," 17 July 2019 But joy turned to terror 40 minutes after the matinee started, when the big top on Barbour Street flared into a scene of confusion and horror, filled with the unreal screams of burning men, women and children. — Mark Mirko, courant.com, "Interactive map: How the Hartford circus fire started, spread and was seen through the eyes of those who were there," 27 June 2019 Video of the unreal scene, which dragged on for nearly a full minute, had been viewed more than 10 million times on social media as of early Wednesday. — Author: Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, "74-year-old spins wildly in basket under Arizona rescue helicopter," 5 June 2019 And Trump himself argued that the strong stock market performance under Obama was a kind of unreal bubble induced by low interest rates. — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, "Judy Shelton’s potential nomination to a Federal Reserve Board seat, explained," 5 June 2019 This stands to reason, seeing as how most of us are fascinated—in spite of ourselves—by that unreal city and its peculiar ways. — Terry Teachout, WSJ, "‘True West’ Review: Family Feud via Tinseltown," 24 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unreal.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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