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| Main Entry: | mythical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fairy-tale, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, mythological, supposititious |
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | apocryphal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questionable; fake |
| Synonyms: | counterfeit, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, false, fictitious, inaccurate, mythical, spurious, unsubstantiated, untrue, unverified, wrong, unauthenticated, ungenuine |
| Antonyms: | authentic, doubtless, real, true |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | fabled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | legendary |
| Synonyms: | fabulous, famed, famous, fanciful, mythical, storied, unreal, fictional, mythological |
| Antonyms: | unknown, unheard of |
| 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: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| Notes: | factitious refers to 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what is genuine, while fictitious is 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what is real; a factitious story might be designed to serve a purpose, but a fictitious story is intended to deceive fictional is pertaining to or found in fiction; fictitious is 'false, fraudulent' or 'non-existent' |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | larger than life |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | legendary |
| Synonyms: | awesome, celebrated, extraordinary, famed, famous, immortal, imposing, impressive, mythical, renowned, towering |
| Main Entry: | made-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | invented mentally |
| Synonyms: | false, imaginary, make-believe, mythical, prepared, specious, unreal, untrue, fabricated, fictional, trumped-up |
| Antonyms: | original, real, true |
| Main Entry: | magic/magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching, charming |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | normal, unmoving |
| 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: | supernatural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious, not of this world |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, celestial, concealed, dark, fabulous, fairy, ghostly, heavenly, hidden, impenetrable, invisible, legendary, metaphysical, miraculous, mystic, mythical, obscure, occult, paranormal, phantom, phenomenal, preternatural, psychic, rare, secret, spectral, superhuman, superior, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unfathomable, unintelligible, unknown, unnatural, unusual, mythological, numinous, supermundane, superordinary, supranatural, uncomprehensible, unknowable, unrevealed |
| Antonyms: | earthly, genuine, natural, real, true, existent |
| 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: | magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magic, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull |
| Main Entry: | legendary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious but well known |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, apocryphal, customary, doubtful, dubious, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, imaginary, imaginative, improbable, mythical, related, romantic, storied, traditional, unreal, created, fabricated, figmental, handed-down, invented, mythological, told, unhistoric, unhistorical, unverifiable |
| Antonyms: | factual, real, true |
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