| Main Entry: | unrealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not believable or practical |
Synonyms: |
blue sky, floating, gone*, half-baked, impossible, impracticable, impractical, improbable, ivory-tower, nonrealistic, nonsensical, not applicable, not sensible, on cloud nine, quixotic, reachy, romantic, silly, starry-eyed, theoretical, unreal, unworkable |
Antonyms: |
believable, practical, pragmatic, realistic, reasonable, sensible |
| Main Entry: | doctrinaire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dogmatic, opinionated |
Synonyms: |
authoritarian, authoritative, biased, bigoted, bullheaded, dictative, dictatorial, dogged, fanatical, impractical, inflexible, insistent, magisterial, mulish, obstinate, one-sided, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, speculative, stiff-necked, stubborn, unrealistic |
Antonyms: |
amenable, flexible, manageable, obedient, submissive |
| Main Entry: | exaggerated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overstated, embellished |
Synonyms: |
a bit thick, abstract, amplified, artificial, bouncing, caricatural, distorted, embroidered, exalted, excessive, extravagant, fabricated, fabulous, false, fantastic, farfetched, hammy, highly colored, histrionic, hyperbolic, impossible, inflated, magnified, melodramatic, out of proportion, overblown, overdone, overestimated, overkill, overwrought, preposterous, pretentious, schmaltzy, sensational, spectacular, steep, strained, stylized, tall, too much*, too-too, unrealistic |
Antonyms: |
depreciated, minimized, played down, reduced, understated, unembellished, unexaggerated |
| Main Entry: | far-fetched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard to believe |
Synonyms: |
bizarre, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, fantastic, fishy, forced, hard to swallow, illogical, implausible, improbable, incoherent, inconsequential, incredible, labored, preposterous, queer, recondite, strained, strange, suspicious, unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely, unnatural, unrealistic |
Antonyms: |
believable, natural, plausible, realistic |
| Main Entry: | idealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | visionary |
Synonyms: |
abstracted, chimerical, dreaming, idealized, impractical, optimistic, quixotic, radical, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian |
| Notes: | ideal means conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; idealistic means of or pertaining to idealists or their theories, pursuing perfection |
| Main Entry: | quixotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealistic |
Synonyms: |
chimerical, chivalrous, dreaming, dreamy, foolish, impetuous, impractical, impulsive, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian, visionary |
| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
Synonyms: |
adventurous, amorous, bathetic, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fairy-tale, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, lovey-dovey, loving, maudlin, mushy, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, soppy, starry-eyed, syrupy, tear-jerking, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild |
Antonyms: |
pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
Synonyms: |
abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, delusory, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, in the clouds, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed, unreal, unrealistic, unworkable, unworldly, utopian |
Antonyms: |
practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | farfetched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unbelieveable |
Synonyms: |
bizarre, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, fantastic, fishy, forced, illogical, implausible, improbable, incoherent, inconsequential, incredible, labored, preposterous, queer, recondite, strained, strange, suspicious, unconvincing, unlikely, unnatural, unrealistic |
Antonyms: |
believable, likely, plausible, realistic |
| Main Entry: | chimeric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary |
Synonyms: |
chimeral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, imagined, made-up, notional, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, unreal, unrealistic, visionary |