| 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, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, flimsy, gone, gossamery, groundless, hallucinatory, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, imponderable, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void, passed away, passed on, perished, shadowy, tenuous, ungrounded, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, without foundation |
Antonyms: |
actual, existent, existing, real, true |
| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deficient in something needed or usual |
Synonyms: |
bare, blank, devoid, empty, hollow, lacking, minus, missing, nonexistent, omitted, unavailable, vacant, vacuous, wanting |
Antonyms: |
sufficient |
| Main Entry: | defunct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extinct, not functioning |
Synonyms: |
asleep, bygone, cold, dead, deceased, departed, done for, down the drain, exanimate, expired, gone, had it, inanimate, inoperative, invalid, kaput, late, lifeless, lost, nonexistent, obsolete, out of commission, vanished |
Antonyms: |
alive, existent, existing, functioning, live, operating, operative, valid, working |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
Synonyms: |
allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | null |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ineffectual, valueless |
Synonyms: |
absent, bad, barren, characterless, imaginary, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, negative, nonexistent, nothing, null and void, powerless, unavailing, unreal, unsanctioned, useless, vain, void, worthless |
Antonyms: |
effective, effectual, valid, valuable, worthwhile, worthy |
| Main Entry: | unreal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, make-believe; hypothetical |
Synonyms: |
aerial, artificial, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fictitious, fictive, figmental, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, insincere, insubstantial, intangible, invented, legendary, misleading, mock, mythical, nebulous, nonexistent, notional, ostensible, phantasmagoric, pretended, reachy, romantic, seeming, sham*, storybook, suppositious, supposititious, theoretical, unbelievable, unsubstantial, visionary |
Antonyms: |
authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | mythical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe |
Synonyms: |
allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fairy-tale, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, mythological, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | out of print |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer in print |
Synonyms: |
no longer published, nonexistent, obsolete, out of stock, public domain, unattainable |
| Main Entry: | out of business |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer operating as a business |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, closed, defunct, extinct, no more, nonexistent |