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unˈreal, a.
(un-1 7.)
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 107 Hence horrible shadow, Vnreall mock'ry hence. 1645Milton Tetrach. 60 Only for the fals keeping of a most unreal nullity, a mariage that hath no affinity with Gods intention. 1667― P.L. x. 471 Th' unreal, vast, unbounded deep Of horrible confusion. 1711Steele Spect. No. 53 ⁋3 You should..teach the Men not to be any longer dazzled by false Charms and unreal Beauty. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Epist. ii. i. 289 He gives a desperate Trial of his Art,..Who with unreal Terrours fills my Breast. 1810Southey Kehama iv. iv, Musing so long he lay, that all things seem Unreal to his sense, even like a dream. 1842Manning Serm. x. (1848) 139 Surrounding ourselves with an unreal world of hopes, and fears. 1871Lowell Study Windows 153 Those who have most loudly advertised their passion for seclusion..have been mostly sentimentalists, unreal men.
spec.1838G. F. Graham Mus. Comp. 17/2 What are called passing notes, or unreal notes, and which are said not to form any real part of the melody or the harmony. 1883A. Sidgwick Fallacies 42 The distinction between Real and what may be called Unreal. Ibid., The name ‘Unreal’ as here applied to propositions, is somewhat wider than what is usually meant by ‘verbal’.
Add:2. slang. a. So good or impressive as to seem incredible; remarkable, amazing, wonderful. Chiefly N. Amer. and Austral.
1965Harper's Bazaar Apr. 173 Unreal. Like great. She's real unreal. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 12/4 Wrote one Maryland skater: ‘We know unreal hills, walls, games, and to us, skatin' is one big trip. With no police hassles, cruisin' is our thing.’ 1986Truckin' Life June 114/1, I reckon your magazine is unreal. I've never missed an issue for the last four years.
b. In negative sense: unbelievably difficult or awful; bizarre. N. Amer.
1966Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) Fall 6 Unreal,..difficult... English 440 is unreal! 1982S. Bellow Dean's December iv. 78 You're unreal, you're out of it. 1986New Yorker 17 Mar. 91/1 In the summer the dust and the flies are unreal. |