unreal

Word family

un·real /ˌʌnˈrɪəl◂/ adjectiveadj

1 [not before noun]STRANGE an experience, situation etc that is unreal seems so strange that you think you must be imagining it 不真實的，虛幻的

It seemed unreal to be sitting and talking to someone so famous.

和這麽一位大名鼎鼎的人坐在一起談話似乎很不真實。

2 REAL/NOT IMAGINARY#not related to real things that happen 脫離現實的，不切實際的

Many people go into marriage with unreal expectations.

許多人都是懷着不切實際的憧憬步入婚姻的。

3 spokenEXCITED very exciting 很刺激的，極棒的 SYN excellent

Our trip to Disneyland was unreal.

我們的迪士尼樂園之旅棒極了。

—unreality /ˌʌnriˈæləti/ noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

unreal• Battle scenes in the movie seemed entirely unreal.• Our trip to Disneyland was totally unreal.• He was young; it was the sixties; he had a beauty that made him a little unreal.• It made him feel rather strange, rather safe and happy, and as if perhaps all of it were unreal.• The daily contact with them was unreal.• Pregnancy often seems unreal, and something which will not happen to them.• The music seemed unreal, especially because of my tranny.• In both poems, Leapor attempts to debunk unreal expectations of marriage.• Self-justifying belongs only to the unreal part of ourselves, the personality.• What we see on the news seems increasingly unreal to me.

un·real adjectiveadj

Syllable

Corpus