unreal

形容某物不真实、没有现实感；在非正式语境中也可表示非常惊人、好得让人觉得不像真的。

💡 记忆钩子

核心画面是“现实感断开了”：东西本来就不属于现实，是“不真实”；如果现实中的景象或表现好得、夸张得超出想象，也会让人觉得“像不是真的”，于是非正式地表示“太惊人了”。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“不真实”这一基本义，再记住非正式语境中的“惊人、不可思议”义；后一个意思不是单纯的“假的”。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 不真实的；没有现实感的

📖 表示某物并不真实，或者看起来、听起来不像现实中的事物，缺少实际存在的感觉。

💡 常见结构是 unreal + 名词，或 look/seem/feel unreal。它既可用于文学、电影等虚构内容，也可表示某段经历过于奇异而让人产生不真实感；不要把它自动当作“故意骗人的”。

The creature in the film looked unreal because it was made with computer effects.

电影里的那个生物看起来不真实，因为它是用电脑特效制作的。
core 惊人的；不可思议的

📖 在非正式表达中，表示某件事好得、壮观得或夸张得超出通常经验，让人觉得简直不像真的。

💡 常见结构是 That’s unreal!，也可以说 unreal + 名词来直接称赞某种表现或景象。这个意思很口语化，正式写作中通常改用 amazing、incredible 等更明确的词；这里不是说事物真的不存在。

informal

That sunset was unreal!

那次日落美得不可思议！

more unreal comparative most unreal superlative

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 4 组

lacking material form or substance; unreal;

同义词集: insubstantial unsubstantial unreal

as insubstantial as a dream

an insubstantial mirage on the horizon

反义: material, real, substantial 近似: aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, ethereal, hollow, shadowy, wraithlike 参见: immaterial, nonmaterial

contrived by art rather than nature; ; ; ;

同义词集: artificial unreal

artificial flowers

artificial flavoring

an artificial diamond

artificial fibers

artificial sweeteners

反义: natural 近似: arranged, bionic, bleached, cardboard, celluloid, colored, coloured, conventionalised, conventionalized, dummy, dyed, ersatz, fake, false, faux, imitation, man-made, near, painted, semisynthetic, simulated, staged, stylised, stylized, substitute, synthetic, unlifelike 参见: counterfeit, imitative

lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria;

同义词集: unreal

ghosts and other unreal entities

unreal propaganda serving as news

反义: existent, real 近似: envisioned, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, illusive, illusory, imaginary, legendary, make-believe, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological, notional, pictured, pretend, visualised, visualized 参见: artificial, counterfeit, imitative, supernatural, unrealistic

not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; ;

同义词集: unreal

this conversation is getting more and more unreal

the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy

the unreal world of advertising art

近似: deceptive, delusory, dreamlike, phantom, surreal

🌳 词源

由否定前缀 un- 和 real 构成。

Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real English unreal From un- + real.

🔄 变式

more unreal compar most unreal superl

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