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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

... so," he said caressing her, "but I begin to fear that the sounds we have heard with so much relief and pleasure, were as unreal as ...

— Elsie's Motherhood • Martha Finley

... moment, the night these terrible eyes looked into mine. The feeling did not last, but I have never forgotten it, and never shall. It was as if a veil were lifted for an instant, and I was standing outside of my life and looking back at it; and it seemed so poor and worthless and unreal—I ...

— Cecilia de Noel • Lanoe Falconer

... to the spot, gazing at him with a sort of fascination. As he emerged into the light there was something almost familiar in his features, and yet something horribly incongruous and unreal. His eyes glowed like living fire; his soft, low tones reminded me of nothing so much as the purring of a tiger; while the smile that played about his lips was more terrible than anything I had ever seen on human face. ...

— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour

... predication about a character into a single unqualified proposition so fatally inadequate. If it is indispensable that we should be for ever describing, naming, classifying, at least it is well, in speaking of such a nature as his, to enlarge the vocabulary beyond the pedantic formulas of unreal ethics, and to be as sure as we know how to make ourselves, that each of the sympathies and faculties which together compose our power of spiritual observation, is in a condition of free and patient energy. Any less ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... next to Bob; rode until he met the next man, and then retraced his steps till he faced Bob again; rode until the world seemed unreal and far away, with nothing left but the night and the riding back and forth on his beat, and the rain that oozed through his clothes and trickled uncomfortably down inside his collar. He lost all count of time, and was startled when at ...

— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower

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