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单词 unreal
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Definition of unreal in English:

unreal

adjective ʌnˈrɪəlˌənˈri(ə)l
  • 1Imaginary or illusory.

    in the half-light the tiny cottages seemed unreal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Effects-wise, this is a stunning film, not content with conventional photography when there is a distinctly unreal feeling, seeing the camera pull right through glass and grating.
    • From the point of view of taxation, there is nothing unreal or imaginary about that.
    • But all the clips make the stories look fantastical, unreal.
    • There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false.
    • Usually, Margaret is much too ‘smart’ to believe something so fantastical, so unreal.
    • The intention was to evoke an unreal elsewhere, an imaginary place both freaky and familiar.
    • Being seven floors up, the ground looked unreal and the people were tiny little creatures of little importance.
    • Technology has only recently been freed from the unreal fantasies that surrounded its discourse and the model put forth here attempts develop this emerging imagery.
    • It would be absurd to say that holes in socks are unreal and illusory just because the hole isn't made of anything and is purely an absence.
    • But I spent my adolescence in a country town, and from there, it's the city that's the unreal and very-far-away fantasyland.
    • However, I also thought that at times he wandered off into a mist of hypothetical, unreal situations.
    • The distant firefight, when it could be heard, sounded strangely unreal, almost as if someone had a piece of bubble wrap and had wrung it so that random bubbles popped and cracked.
    • The event took just ten minutes, and when it was the turn for the questions, Anne felt a weird sensation, everything was so unreal.
    • It has a wonderful atmosphere about it, with larger-than-life characters and a slightly unreal, fantasy feel.
    • Before, thoughts of Angela seemed distant, unreal, like a hallucination or an imaginary tale.
    • The speed and flexibility which strategy software offers can also take the user into an unreal world where reality merges into fantasy.
    • Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.
    • What was always an improbable scenario, the Granita restaurant myth, has become a quite unreal fantasy.
    • In placing him as a real man in unreal circumstances, Mann enhances Ali's legend.
    • Eventually the brief day begins to feel unreal, an illusory comfort for those who cannot take the unrelenting darkness.
    Synonyms
    imaginary, imagined, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, made-up, dreamed-up, non-existent, mock, false, invented, illusory, mythical, fanciful, fancied, fantastic, fabulous, legendary, chimerical, fairy-tale, phantasmagoric
    hypothetical, theoretical, ideal
    informal phoney
    1. 1.1North American informal Incredible; amazing.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘It was unreal, absolutely terrifying,’ she says.
      • The speeds and turns were unreal, it was amazing.
      • ‘It was amazing when they called my name, I could hardly hear it, everyone was jumping out of the seats, it was unreal,’ she smiles.
      • ‘It would have been amazing to play there, completely unreal,’ added 25-year-old Bell.
      • She felt it immediately; an unreal sensation, as though the ground had dropped from beneath her.
      • Jeremy said: ‘The amount of times we've read that we're Irish or out to save the world is unreal.’
      • She said for the 10th time since I'd told her my extraordinary news, ‘This is just unreal.’
      • She was asked to come along and see her daughter receiving a First Aid Certificate and her surprise was unreal when she saw it was her party in full swing.
      • Just to be there was unreal, but the stress was unbelievable.
      • The speed and strength of their attacks was phenomenal and bordered on unreal.
      • Kids started to mosh and for a moment I thought this was unreal.
      • Like so many young families juggling workplace demands, family commitments, unreal housing prices and rising home loan interest rates, the income she earned was welcome.
      • To think that it came from my dad's shop is just unreal.
      • The tension in the room was unreal, but each individual sat wondering why a meeting should be called.
      • Approaching them, from the distance was a peculiar small man who ran with unreal speed.
      • ‘He's so brave it's unreal,’ explained his mum, Heather.
      Synonyms
      extraordinary, exceptional, amazing, astonishing, astounding, marvellous, wonderful, sensational, stunning, incredible, unbelievable, miraculous, phenomenal, prodigious
  • 2Unrealistic.

    many people have unreal expectations of marriage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The main problem is that most of the passion takes the form of rage - about the combination of ridiculous workload and unreal expectations.
    • Now we demand that our celebrities shoulder that burden, saddling them with our hopes and the heavy weight of our often unreal expectations.
    • Significantly, none of the reviews which complain of the film's complexity argue that the construction of the story is somehow unbelievable or unreal.
    • Reality can't compete with unreal expectations.
    • More recent comments have drifted in the direction of the threat to social partnership being created by unreal pay expectations.
    • By proclaiming that mothers are the best option for the children in every case, they are set up for unreal expectations.
    • And of course, it would be unreal to expect ‘real women’ willing to be featured in their bras and undies on billboards!
    • "Of course, that denotes a very passionate nature, but one with unreal expectations of love.
    • This was partly because of the unreal expectations that had been built up beforehand, and to which we in the media undoubtedly contributed.
    • Rushed consultation and planning inevitably lead to unreal expectations, delays in implementation, and failure to deliver planned benefits.
    • What worries me about the way this modest and thoughtful policy has been rolled out is the unreal expectations invested in it by politicians, and the ideological message in which it is wrapped.
    • As with Modern Maenad I found this incredibly written poorly with unreal, card board cut-out characters.
    • ‘We work because we never had unreal expectations of what the band was supposed to be doing,’ says MacArthur.
    • We think that they may have had an unreal expectation of the impact of the intervention in primary care, perhaps reflecting the absence of primary care researchers in the study team.
    • The result is the current dishonesty: an unreal discussion of danger that captivates the imagination of our population and most influential bodies and individuals.
    • I mean, it is a little bit unreal if we have to pretend that family support is not a factor in these matters.
    • With Padmanabhan's keen sense of the telling detail in human situations, that theoretical world seems too unreal and far-fetched.
    • Part of the problem with the parliament is, as commentator Iain McWhirter says, naive idealism and, after a 300-year break, unreal expectations.
    • And Krissi is the perfect solution for people like me, who have unreal expectations about their capabilities.

Derivatives

  • unreally

  • adverb
    • Now, whereas my face was blighted by angry red spots and a nose that wouldn't have looked out of place on an aardvark, this boy had unreally smooth skin and a tiny nose.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In My Darling Clementine, the town of Tombstone is unreally set against the sandstone fingers; the OK Corral is surrounded by cacti and space.
      • Not only is the roll printable, it has extremely high acutance - the prints from it appear almost unreally sharp.
      • It was dark and dismal by early afternoon, lights projected star-rays on the street, unreally.
      • I think the thing that has to be kept in mind is that you do not need some unreally quick and defensive apt team to do these things.
 
 

Definition of unreal in US English:

unreal

adjectiveˌənˈri(ə)lˌənˈrē(ə)l
  • 1So strange as to appear imaginary; not seeming real.

    in the half-light the tiny cottages seemed unreal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But I spent my adolescence in a country town, and from there, it's the city that's the unreal and very-far-away fantasyland.
    • There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false.
    • However, I also thought that at times he wandered off into a mist of hypothetical, unreal situations.
    • From the point of view of taxation, there is nothing unreal or imaginary about that.
    • The event took just ten minutes, and when it was the turn for the questions, Anne felt a weird sensation, everything was so unreal.
    • Effects-wise, this is a stunning film, not content with conventional photography when there is a distinctly unreal feeling, seeing the camera pull right through glass and grating.
    • Eventually the brief day begins to feel unreal, an illusory comfort for those who cannot take the unrelenting darkness.
    • The speed and flexibility which strategy software offers can also take the user into an unreal world where reality merges into fantasy.
    • It would be absurd to say that holes in socks are unreal and illusory just because the hole isn't made of anything and is purely an absence.
    • Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.
    • Technology has only recently been freed from the unreal fantasies that surrounded its discourse and the model put forth here attempts develop this emerging imagery.
    • The intention was to evoke an unreal elsewhere, an imaginary place both freaky and familiar.
    • Usually, Margaret is much too ‘smart’ to believe something so fantastical, so unreal.
    • What was always an improbable scenario, the Granita restaurant myth, has become a quite unreal fantasy.
    • Being seven floors up, the ground looked unreal and the people were tiny little creatures of little importance.
    • The distant firefight, when it could be heard, sounded strangely unreal, almost as if someone had a piece of bubble wrap and had wrung it so that random bubbles popped and cracked.
    • But all the clips make the stories look fantastical, unreal.
    • Before, thoughts of Angela seemed distant, unreal, like a hallucination or an imaginary tale.
    • In placing him as a real man in unreal circumstances, Mann enhances Ali's legend.
    • It has a wonderful atmosphere about it, with larger-than-life characters and a slightly unreal, fantasy feel.
    Synonyms
    imaginary, imagined, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, made-up, dreamed-up, non-existent, mock, false, invented, illusory, mythical, fanciful, fancied, fantastic, fabulous, legendary, chimerical, fairy-tale, phantasmagoric
    1. 1.1 Unrealistic.
      unreal expectations
      Example sentencesExamples
      • With Padmanabhan's keen sense of the telling detail in human situations, that theoretical world seems too unreal and far-fetched.
      • Reality can't compete with unreal expectations.
      • As with Modern Maenad I found this incredibly written poorly with unreal, card board cut-out characters.
      • And of course, it would be unreal to expect ‘real women’ willing to be featured in their bras and undies on billboards!
      • ‘We work because we never had unreal expectations of what the band was supposed to be doing,’ says MacArthur.
      • Part of the problem with the parliament is, as commentator Iain McWhirter says, naive idealism and, after a 300-year break, unreal expectations.
      • Rushed consultation and planning inevitably lead to unreal expectations, delays in implementation, and failure to deliver planned benefits.
      • More recent comments have drifted in the direction of the threat to social partnership being created by unreal pay expectations.
      • Now we demand that our celebrities shoulder that burden, saddling them with our hopes and the heavy weight of our often unreal expectations.
      • The result is the current dishonesty: an unreal discussion of danger that captivates the imagination of our population and most influential bodies and individuals.
      • This was partly because of the unreal expectations that had been built up beforehand, and to which we in the media undoubtedly contributed.
      • By proclaiming that mothers are the best option for the children in every case, they are set up for unreal expectations.
      • The main problem is that most of the passion takes the form of rage - about the combination of ridiculous workload and unreal expectations.
      • What worries me about the way this modest and thoughtful policy has been rolled out is the unreal expectations invested in it by politicians, and the ideological message in which it is wrapped.
      • We think that they may have had an unreal expectation of the impact of the intervention in primary care, perhaps reflecting the absence of primary care researchers in the study team.
      • And Krissi is the perfect solution for people like me, who have unreal expectations about their capabilities.
      • I mean, it is a little bit unreal if we have to pretend that family support is not a factor in these matters.
      • Significantly, none of the reviews which complain of the film's complexity argue that the construction of the story is somehow unbelievable or unreal.
      • "Of course, that denotes a very passionate nature, but one with unreal expectations of love.
    2. 1.2North American informal Incredible; amazing.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She felt it immediately; an unreal sensation, as though the ground had dropped from beneath her.
      • ‘It was amazing when they called my name, I could hardly hear it, everyone was jumping out of the seats, it was unreal,’ she smiles.
      • She was asked to come along and see her daughter receiving a First Aid Certificate and her surprise was unreal when she saw it was her party in full swing.
      • ‘It would have been amazing to play there, completely unreal,’ added 25-year-old Bell.
      • To think that it came from my dad's shop is just unreal.
      • The speed and strength of their attacks was phenomenal and bordered on unreal.
      • Approaching them, from the distance was a peculiar small man who ran with unreal speed.
      • Like so many young families juggling workplace demands, family commitments, unreal housing prices and rising home loan interest rates, the income she earned was welcome.
      • The speeds and turns were unreal, it was amazing.
      • Kids started to mosh and for a moment I thought this was unreal.
      • Jeremy said: ‘The amount of times we've read that we're Irish or out to save the world is unreal.’
      • She said for the 10th time since I'd told her my extraordinary news, ‘This is just unreal.’
      • Just to be there was unreal, but the stress was unbelievable.
      • ‘It was unreal, absolutely terrifying,’ she says.
      • ‘He's so brave it's unreal,’ explained his mum, Heather.
      • The tension in the room was unreal, but each individual sat wondering why a meeting should be called.
      Synonyms
      extraordinary, exceptional, amazing, astonishing, astounding, marvellous, wonderful, sensational, stunning, incredible, unbelievable, miraculous, phenomenal, prodigious
 
 
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