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(adj)
(archaic) Insubstantial.
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Lacking substance; not real or strong.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
(n)
A stupid person.
Not lifelike.
Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
tending to delude
Illusory; being or pertaining to an illusion.
Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion.
Likely or attempting to deceive.
Not real; false, fraudulent.
Fake or artificial.
Man-made; made by humans; of artifice.
Created by humans; artificial.
Created by people, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic.
In shadow; darkened by shadows.
Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.
Imaginary; not real; pretend.
inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitation
False in the sense of made-up, constructed.
Invented; contrived.
Invented or fabricated.
Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
Having a fancy (“inclination, liking, or love”) for; desired, favourite.
Of or pertaining to fantasy.
Physically close.
Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
fictional, made up, imaginary.
Existing only in the imagination.
Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.
Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
Invented, as opposed to real.
Conceived or envisioned in the mind.
Having been the subject of visualization; having had (its) appearance or existence imagined or designed.
(slang) Very good; outstanding, wonderful.
Planned, prepared.
Resembling a wraith; ghostly.
Made known by fables or reputation; legendary, famed.
Fictitious or nonexistent.
Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.
Invented in imitation of a particular thing or of a specific condition; artificial.
Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories.
(attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
(of a marriage) Having the match decided by someone other than the couple being married.
(by extension) Not real; false or fabricated.
(colloquial) Amazing, epic, legendary.
(mythology) Of or pertaining to mythology
Of, or relating to myths or mythology.
Represented according to some convention, omitting dispensable detail, rather than in a realistic or literal manner.
Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
(chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stylized. [Made to conform to some style.]
Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
Having a color.
Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
represented by a picture
Pertaining to air.
Coated with paint.
(figuratively, often used attributively) The genre of cinema; film.
Living or taking place in the air.
Whitened; made white using bleach
(poetic) Aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.
Made of or resembling cardboard; (figurative) flat or flavorless.
(organic chemistry) synthesized by chemically modifying a natural material
using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous
seen in the mind as a mental image
creating the illusion of seeing reality
(v)
(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
(transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
(intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
(figuratively) Amazing, astonishing; so surprising that one is almost, or figuratively, unable to believe.
(figurative) Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
Not realistic.
Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
Very bad.
Absurd, or contrary to common sense.
of, or relating to surrealism
surreal.
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
(colloquial, Canada, US, Australia) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
Very excited or enthusiastic.
True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
An important or main item.
Enchanting.
Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(colloquial) Insane, mad.
Having vision or foresight.
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom (“apparition or ghost”); ghostly, spectral.
Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a world different from the tangible world, especially a fantasy, imaginary, or mystical world.
Above nature; beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force beyond that with which humans are born.
Not plausible; unlikely; dubious.
Not possible; not able to be done or happen.