1
as in absurd
conceived or made without regard for reason or reality
an unreal claim that is distant from the slightest hint of truth
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2
as in mythic
not real and existing only in the imagination
the unreal world of TV sitcoms
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Recent Examples of unreal
Rather than the typical market outlook, fraught with all the dangers of being a soothsayer, this outlook will endeavor to take a journey like Lewis Carroll’s Alice to find some reality in markets that can sometimes seem unreal or irrational.
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Bill Stone, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Flight attendant Kelly Duncan, the only crew member on board who survived, told ABC News in 1982 that the crash seemed unreal.
—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2025
With those circumstances, he’s still looked unreal.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2025
Derealization, on the other hand, refers to feeling detached from the environment, as though the people and things in the world are unreal.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Bill Stone, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Flight attendant Kelly Duncan, the only crew member on board who survived, told ABC News in 1982 that the crash seemed unreal.
—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2025
With those circumstances, he’s still looked unreal.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2025
Derealization, on the other hand, refers to feeling detached from the environment, as though the people and things in the world are unreal.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreal
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With stories of family chaos, missteps and her devoted dog Chunk, Chelsea hilariously tackles the world’s most absurd travel situations.—
Ashlee Conour,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Every major hospital show has confronted this tonal clash throughout its run; stalwarts such as ER and Grey’s Anatomy have depended on ever larger and more absurd set pieces (tank invasions, ferry disasters, helicopter crashes) to ratchet up the action.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
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The movie, based on the video game of the same name, centers around four misfits who are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2025
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But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.—
Ben Brubaker,
Wired News,
30 Mar. 2025
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Morgan & Morgan, the firm that puts up those annoying Philly billboards, was fined after one of their lawyers admitted to using an AI program that generated fictitious case citations in a legal filing.—
Isaac Avilucea,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Putin cannot refuse a ceasefire, without losing the fictitious moral high ground.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
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No matter what your feelings are about Sternberg and his executive team today, these are not foolish people.—
John Romano,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Mar. 2025
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There's nothing foolish about choosing beauty over practicality if that's what your heart desires.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
14 Mar. 2025
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After the war, that technology, developed by a painfully pretentious guru named Ethan Skate (Stanley Tucci), was sold to the public as a way of keeping them sedated and immersed in imaginary worlds.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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And now a question for a future newsletter: Do the kids in your life have imaginary friends?—
Anna North,
Vox,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Your voice is insane.—
Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com,
al,
4 Apr. 2023
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The Republican and right-wing reaction is just insane.—
Michael Tomasky,
The New Republic,
31 Mar. 2023
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This sends him on a high-stakes journey to find the mythical Last Wish, a fabled star that can restore his lost lives.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Begins at noon April 13, Steinmetz Hall, free ‘The Last Firefly’: Naomi Iizuka’s play for young audiences combines Japanese fairy tales and folklore to tell the mythical tale of Boom, the son of Thunder, who must confront the forces of nature in a blend of magic, courage and wonder.—
Matthew J. Palm,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2025
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In this mostly fictional version, the reclusive Omara has to decide whether or not to come back from retirement and record with her old colleagues from the fervent Cuban years, thus confronting those ghosts.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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Shows about Hollywood feel in vogue, with Seth Rogen’s Apple TV+ series The Studio about the fictional head of a big American player set to launch in a week.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Unreal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreal. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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