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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, devious |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, bluffing, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, conniving, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, guileful, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, plotting, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, sneaking, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily |
| Antonyms: | honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever |
| Main Entry: | subjective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional; based on inner experience rather than fact |
| Synonyms: | abstract, biased, fanciful, idiosyncratic, illusory, individual, instinctive, introspective, introverted, intuitive, nonobjective, nonrepresentative, personal, prejudiced, unobjective |
| Antonyms: | objective, unbiased, unemotional, unprejudiced |
| 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
| Main Entry: | utopian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, ideal |
| Synonyms: | abstract, airy, ambitious, arcadian, chimerical, dream, fanciful, fantasy, grandiose, hopeful, idealist, idealistic, ideological, illusory, impossible, impractical, lofty, otherworldly, perfect, pie-in-the-sky, pretentious, quixotic, romantic, transcendental, unfeasible, visionary |
| Antonyms: | real |
| 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: | illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, false, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mocking, seeming, sham, unread |
| Antonyms: | real |
| Main Entry: | shadowy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy |
| Synonyms: | adumbral, chimerical, cloudy, dark, dim, dreamy, faint, ghostly, illusory, imaginary, indistinct, obscure, shady, umbral, unsubstantial, vague, visionary |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, distinct |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | delusory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, fallacious, false, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading |
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