| Main Entry: |
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| 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
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| Antonyms: |
authentic, genuine, real
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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