adjective
- not real or actual.
- imaginary; fanciful; illusory; delusory; fantastic.
- lacking in truth; not genuine; false; artificial: unreal propaganda serving as news.
adjective
- imaginary or fanciful or seemingly soan unreal situation
- having no actual existence or substance
- insincere or artificial
adj.c.1600, “not real,” from un- (1) “not” + real (adj.). Slang sense of “wonderful, great” is first recorded 1965. Hence horrible shadow, Vnreall mock’ry hence. [“Macbeth,” III.iv.107]