VIRTUAL

[adjective] [not gradable] - almost, even if not exactly or in every wayTen years of incompetent government had brought about the virtual collapse of the country's economy.Now that the talks have broken down, war in the region looks like a virtual certainty.She was a virtual unknown when she was chosen for the part.Nowadays, television has a virtual monopoly over cultural life.Snow brought the whole of Guernsey to a virtual standstill yesterday.Virtual reality is a set of images and sounds produced by a computer which seem to represent a place or a situation in which a person experiencing it can take part.