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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasm, phantasmagoric, phantasmal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fantastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, different; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, far-fetched, fictional, foolish, foreign, freakish, grotesque, hallucinatory, illusive, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, ludicrous, mad, misleading, nonsensical, odd, out of sight, outlandish, peculiar, phantasmagorical, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, singular, suppositious, unbelievable, unlikely, unreal, wacky*, weird, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | febrile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feverish |
| Synonyms: | delirious, fevered, fiery, flushed, hallucinatory, hot, inflamed, pyretic |
| Antonyms: | cold, freezing, frigid |
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | mind-blowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing, intense |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, eye-opening, hallucinatory, mind-altering, mind-boggling, overwhelming, psychedelic, staggering, stunning, wonderful |
| 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: | psychedelic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affecting the mind so as to produce vivid visions |
| Synonyms: | consciousness-expanding, crazy*, experimental, freaky, hallucinatory, hallucinogenic, kaleidoscopic, mind-bending, mind-blowing*, mind-changing, mind-expanding, multicolored, psychoactive, psychotomimetic, psychotropic, trip* |
| Antonyms: | normal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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