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Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.

In an unreal manner; ideally.

Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal.

Unreal; illusory. "A sort of Barmecidal feast." Hood.

Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.

Acting in concurrence; united in action. With what's unreal thou coactive art. Shak.

Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. [Obs.] Warburton.

An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.

To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal). He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen. Thackeray.

Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak.

Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal. They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are Gay. -- Far"ci*cal*ly, adv. -Far"ci*cal*ness, n.

Showy; unreal; pretentious. Seeing his gewgaw castle shine. Tennyson.

Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal. "Planning ideal common wealth." Southey.

An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination. To cheat the eye with blear illusions. Milton.

Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. Truth from illusive falsehood to command. Thomson.