UNREAL


Meaning of UNREAL in English

1.

If you say that a situation is ~, you mean that it is so strange that you find it difficult to believe it is happening.

It was ~. Like some crazy childhood nightmare...

It felt so ~ to be talking about our son like this.

= bizarre

ADJ: v-link ADJ

~ity

To his surprise he didn’t feel too weak. Light-headed certainly, and with a sense of ~ity, but able to walk.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If you use ~ to describe something, you are critical of it because you think that it is not like, or not related to, things you expect to find in the real world.

...~ financial targets...

Almost all fictional detectives are ~.

= ~istic

ADJ disapproval

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