- 1so strange that it is more like a dream than reality The party began to take on an unreal, almost nightmarish quality.
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- 2not related to reality synonym unrealistic Many people have unreal expectations of what marriage will be like.
- 3(informal) used to say that you like something very much or that something surprises you “That's unreal!” she laughed.
NAmE//ˌʌnriˈælət̮i//
noun [uncountable] She had a strange sense of unreality. An air of unreality hung over the whole ceremony.See unreal in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: unreal