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| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up*, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | momentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, fleeting |
| Synonyms: | cursory, dreamlike, ephemeral, evanescent, flitting*, flying, fugitive, hasty, impermanent, impulsive, instantaneous, passing, quick, short, short-lived, spasmodic, summary, temporary, transient, transitory, vanishing, volatile, flashing, fugacious, gone in flash, in wink of an eye, like lightning, shifting |
| Antonyms: | lasting, long-lasting, permanent, staying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, flimsy, gone, groundless, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void*, shadowy, tenuous, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, gossamery, hallucinatory, imponderable, passed away, passed on, perished, ungrounded, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existing, real, true, existent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unreal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, make-believe; hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | aerial, artificial, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fictitious, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, insincere, insubstantial, intangible, legendary, misleading, mock, mythical, nebulous, nonexistent, ostensible, pretended, romantic, seeming, sham*, theoretical, unbelievable, unsubstantial, visionary, fictive, figmental, hallucinatory, invented, notional, phantasmagoric, reachy, storybook, suppositious, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vague |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not definite or clear |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, amorphous, bleary, cloudy, dark, dim, doubtful, dreamlike, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, faint, fuzzy, hazy, ill-defined, impalpable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicable, lax, loose, misunderstood, muddy, nebulous, obscure, perplexing, problematic, puzzling, questionable, shadowy, superficial, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, undetermined, unintelligible, unknown, unsettled, unspecified, unsure, amphibological, bewildering, blurred, generalized, imprecise, unexplicit |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, definite, sure |
| Main Entry: | ideal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceptual; impractical |
| Synonyms: | Utopian*, abstract, chimerical, dreamlike, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, high-flown, hypothetical, imaginary, intellectual, mental, mercurial, quixotic, theoretical, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unreal, visionary, in the clouds, ivory-tower, notional, out-of-reach, unattainable |
| Antonyms: | actual, common, material, practical, pragmatic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not existing in physical form |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, celestial, dreamlike, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, intangible, metaphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, imponderable, nonmaterial, nonphysical, spiritlike, unembodied, unfleshly, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | bodily, material, physical, real, solid, substantial |
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