What are the opposite words for real?
Real, one of the most common English words, is used to refer to something that is tangible, genuine, or authentic. Antonyms are words that are opposite in meaning to another. The antonyms for the word "real" could be imaginary, unreal, illusory, fictitious, fake, or pretend. Imaginary refers to something that exists only in the mind or imagination. Unreal means something that doesn't exist in reality or is not true. Illusory means not real but seem true for a short time. Fictitious describes something that is invented or untrue. Fake means something that is made to look like something that is real. Lastly, pretend means to act as if something is real when it is not.
- surrogate
- vulgarized design or appearance
- person or thing that acts as
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immaterial
- inapposite,
- nonmaterial,
- unembodied,
- wraithlike,
- Asomatous,
- Disbodied,
- Discarnate,
- Unfleshly,
- of no consequence,
- dis bodied,
- dis embodied,
- dis-bodied,
- dis-embodied,
- in applicable,
- in apposite,
- in appropriate,
- in consequential,
- in considerable,
- in corporate,
- in corporeal,
- in essential,
- in sensible,
- in significant,
- in-applicable,
- in-apposite,
- in-appropriate,
- in-consequential,
- in-considerable,
- in-corporate,
- in-corporeal,
- in-essential,
- in-sensible,
- more asomatous,
- more disbodied,
- more discarnate,
- more inapposite,
- more incorporate,
- more irrelative,
- more nonmaterial,
- more spiritlike,
- more unembodied,
- more wraithlike,
- most asomatous,
- most disbodied,
- most discarnate,
- most inapposite,
- most incorporate,
- most irrelative,
- most nonmaterial,
- most spiritlike,
- most unembodied,
- most wraithlike,
- no big deal,
- no never mind,
- non material,
- non physical,
- non-material,
- non-physical,
- of no importance,
- spiritlike,
- un embodied,
- un fleshlier,
- un fleshliest,
- un fleshly,
- un necessary,
- un worldlier,
- un worldliest,
- un worldly,
- un-embodied,
- un-fleshlier,
- un-fleshliest,
- un-fleshly,
- un-important,
- un-necessary,
- un-worldlier,
- un-worldliest,
- un-worldly,
- unfleshlier,
- unfleshliest.
- academic
- believed
- plastic
- pretended
-
exaggerated
- hyperbolic,
- overkill,
- overestimated,
- a bit thick,
- out of proportion,
- over-wrought,
- caricatural,
- more bouncing,
- more caricatural,
- more embroidered,
- more hyperbolic,
- more magnified,
- more overestimated,
- more overkill,
- more stylized,
- more too too,
- more too-too,
- more tootoo,
- most amplified,
- most bouncing,
- most caricatural,
- most embroidered,
- most hyperbolic,
- most magnified,
- most overestimated,
- most stylized,
- most too too,
- most tootoo,
- out proportion,
- over blown,
- over estimated,
- over kill,
- over-blown,
- over-estimated,
- over-kill,
- too too,
- too-too,
- tootoo,
- un realistic.
- substitute
- subjective
- secret
- dramatic
- nonexistent
-
false
- casuistic,
- contrary to fact,
- mendacious,
- rascally,
- scoundrelly,
- Misrepresentative,
- socalled,
- falsehearted,
- contrary fact,
- cooked-up,
- cookedup,
- counter factual,
- counter-factual,
- dis honorable,
- dis loyal,
- dis-honorable,
- dis-loyal,
- mis representative,
- mis-representative,
- more casuistic,
- more cooked up,
- more cooked-up,
- more cookedup,
- more forsworn,
- more misrepresentative,
- more mythomaniac,
- more rascally,
- more scoundrelly,
- most apostate,
- most casuistic,
- most cooked up,
- most cooked-up,
- most cookedup,
- most forsworn,
- most misrepresentative,
- mythomaniac,
- off mark,
- off the mark,
- so called,
- un faithful,
- un-faithful.
- erroneous
-
dishonest
- deceptive,
- untrue,
- dis honest,
- dis reputable,
- dis-honest,
- dis-reputable,
- more bluffing,
- more cheating,
- more double crossing,
- more double-crossing,
- more hoodwinking,
- more swindling,
- more two timing,
- more two-timing,
- more twotiming,
- most backbiting,
- most bluffing,
- most double crossing,
- most double-crossing,
- most doublecrossing,
- most hoodwinking,
- most swindling,
- most two timing,
- most two-timing,
- most twotiming,
- un fair,
- un fairer,
- un fairest,
- un principled,
- un scrupulous,
- un-fair,
- un-fairer,
- un-fairest,
- un-principled,
- un-scrupulous.
- colored
- imaginary
- deceptive
- visionary
- untruthful
- improbable
-
unbelievable
- cockamamie,
- Incogitable,
- open to doubt,
- full of holes,
- past belief,
- beyond belief,
- for birds,
- for the birds,
- full holes,
- in cogitable,
- in-cogitable,
- lamebrained,
- more cockamamie,
- more incogitable,
- more lamebrained,
- most cockamamie,
- most incogitable,
- most lamebrained,
- open doubt,
- re aching,
- re-aching,
- un believable,
- un thinkable,
- un-believable,
- un-thinkable,
- won't hold water,
- won't wash,
- wont hold water,
- wont wash.
- unreal
- abstract
- affected
- apocryphal
-
apparent
- under one's nose,
- Semblant,
- out in the open,
- big as life,
- clear cut,
- in dubitable,
- in-dubitable,
- make no bones,
- more semblant,
- most apparent,
- most possible,
- most semblant,
- open and shut,
- open shut,
- out in open,
- out open,
- out the open,
- self evident,
- selfevident,
- trans parent,
- trans-parent,
- un ambiguous,
- un equivocal,
- un mistakable,
- un-equivocal,
- un-mistakable,
- under nose,
- under one nose,
- under ones nose.
- bogus
- conceptual
- counterfeit
- delusive
- dreamlike
- extraordinary
- fake
-
fanciful
- blue sky,
- fairytale,
- incredible,
- castles in the air,
- castles air,
- castles in air,
- castles the air,
- fairy-tale,
- in credible,
- in-credible,
- more curious,
- more fabulous,
- more fairy tale,
- more fairy-tale,
- more fairytale,
- more fancied,
- most fairy tale,
- most fairy-tale,
- most fairytale,
- most fancied,
- pie in sky,
- pie sky,
- pie the sky.
- fantastic
- farcical
- fictitious
- figurative
- fraudulent
- groundless
- illusive
- illusory
- in essence
- insubstantial
- made-up
- make-believe
- man-made
- meretricious
-
metaphysical
- jesuitic,
- superhuman,
- Supermundane,
- Supramundane,
- meta physical,
- meta-physical,
- more jesuitic,
- more oversubtle,
- more supermundane,
- more suprahuman,
- more supramundane,
- more supranatural,
- more unphysical,
- most jesuitic,
- most oversubtle,
- most supermundane,
- most suprahuman,
- most supramundane,
- most supranatural,
- most unphysical,
- over subtle,
- over-subtle,
- oversubtle,
- pro found,
- pro founder,
- pro-found,
- pro-founder,
- super human,
- super mundane,
- super-human,
- super-mundane,
- supra human,
- supra mundane,
- supra natural,
- supra-human,
- supra-mundane,
- supra-natural,
- suprahuman,
- supranatural,
- un physical,
- un-physical,
- uni versal,
- uni-versal,
- unphysical.
- miraculous
- misleading
-
mystic
- enigmatical,
- necromantic,
- nonrational,
- sorcerous,
- witchlike,
- wizardly,
- Mysterial,
- Telestic,
- more necromantic,
- more nonrational,
- more sorcerous,
- more telestic,
- more witchlike,
- more wizardly,
- most necromantic,
- most nonrational,
- most sorcerous,
- most witchlike,
- most wizardly,
- non rational,
- non-rational.
- philosophical
- presumed
-
psychic
- psychogenic,
- supersensitive,
- telepathic,
- transmundane,
- Intellective,
- Psychal,
- telekinetic,
- supersensory,
- sensile,
- more intellective,
- more psychal,
- more psychogenic,
- more sensile,
- more supersensitive,
- more supersensory,
- more supersensual,
- more telekinetic,
- more telepathic,
- more transmundane,
- most intellective,
- most psychogenic,
- most sensile,
- most supersensitive,
- most supersensory,
- most supersensual,
- most telekinetic,
- most telepathic,
- most transmundane,
- psycho logical,
- psycho-logical,
- super sensible,
- super sensitive,
- super sensory,
- super sensual,
- super-sensible,
- super-sensitive,
- super-sensory,
- super-sensual,
- trans mundane,
- trans-mundane.
- putative
- reflective
- reputed
- romantic
- seeming
- speculative
- spurious
-
supernatural
- unknowable,
- unrevealed,
- fairier,
- fairiest,
- more phantom,
- more superordinary,
- more unknowable,
- more unrevealed,
- most phantom,
- most superordinary,
- most unknowable,
- most unrevealed,
- para normal,
- super natural,
- super ordinary,
- super-natural,
- super-ordinary,
- superordinary,
- un cannier,
- un canniest,
- un canny,
- un comprehensible,
- un fathomable,
- un knowable,
- un known,
- un revealed,
- un usual,
- un-cannier,
- un-canniest,
- un-comprehensible,
- un-intelligible,
- un-knowable,
- un-known,
- un-revealed,
- un-usual.
-
theoretical
- ideational,
- ideological,
- in theory,
- in the abstract,
- as a premise,
- as premise,
- in abstract,
- more codified,
- more formalistic,
- more formularized,
- more idealized,
- more ideational,
- more ideological,
- more instanced,
- most codified,
- most formalistic,
- most formularized,
- most ideational,
- most ideological,
- most instanced,
- un proved,
- un-proved.
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transcendent
- unequalled,
- unrivalled,
- Unequalable,
- pre-eminent,
- beyond grasp,
- in comparable,
- in finite,
- in tact,
- in-comparable,
- in-finite,
- in-tact,
- more exceeding,
- more pre eminent,
- more pre-eminent,
- more surpassing,
- more transcending,
- more unequalable,
- more unequalled,
- more unrivalled,
- most exceeding,
- most pre eminent,
- most pre-eminent,
- most surpassing,
- most transcending,
- most unequalable,
- most unrivalled,
- pre eminent,
- sub lime,
- sub-lime,
- sur-passing,
- un equalled,
- un paralleled,
- un rivalled,
- un-equalled,
- un-paralleled.
- unfounded
- unrecognizable
- virtual
- artificial
-
assumed
- taken for granted,
- more affected,
- more conjectured,
- more granted,
- more hypothesized,
- more imitation,
- more postulated,
- more presumed,
- more presupposed,
- more puton,
- more surmised,
- most conjectured,
- most connoted,
- most imitation,
- most postulated,
- most presumed,
- most presupposed,
- most put-on,
- most surmised,
- pre supposed,
- pre-supposed,
- taken as known,
- under stood,
- under-stood.
- bastard
- conjectural
- contingent
- contrived
-
deceitful
- Astucious,
- Double dealing,
- Impostrous,
- de signing,
- de-signing,
- dis ingenuous,
- dis-ingenuous,
- doubledealing,
- in direct,
- in-direct,
- more astucious,
- more deceiving,
- more impostrous,
- most astucious,
- most beguiling,
- most deceiving,
- most feline,
- most impostrous,
- most rascal,
- un-trustworthy,
- under hand,
- under handed,
- under-hand,
- under-handed.
- disguised
- dreamy
- fallacious
- feigned
- fishy
- hallucinatory
-
hollow
- alveolate,
- clangorous,
- cup-shaped,
- deep-set,
- dimpled,
- incurved,
- reverberant,
- toneless,
- Infundibular,
- Cupped,
- carved out,
- cup shaped,
- cupshaped,
- de pressed,
- de-pressed,
- deep set,
- deepset,
- in curved,
- in dented,
- in-curved,
- in-dented,
- more alveolate,
- more clangorous,
- more cup shaped,
- more cup-shaped,
- more cupped,
- more deep set,
- more deep-set,
- more deepset,
- more dimpled,
- more echoing,
- more excavated,
- more incurved,
- more infundibular,
- more muted,
- more pitted,
- more reverberant,
- more rumbling,
- more sounding,
- more striated,
- more toneless,
- more troughlike,
- more vibrating,
- most cup-shaped,
- most cupped,
- most cupshaped,
- most deep set,
- most deep-set,
- most deepset,
- most dimpled,
- most echoing,
- most excavated,
- most incurved,
- most infundibular,
- most muted,
- most pitted,
- most reverberant,
- most rumbling,
- most sounding,
- most striated,
- most toneless,
- most troughlike,
- most vibrating,
- re sounding,
- re-sounding,
- troughlike,
- un availing,
- un filled,
- un-availing,
- un-filled.
-
hypothetical
- contestable,
- hypothetical,
- refutable,
- stochastic,
- theoretical,
- unconfirmed,
- Conjecturable,
- Postulated,
- hypo thetical,
- hypo-thetical,
- in determinate,
- more conjecturable,
- more contestable,
- more pretending,
- more refutable,
- more stochastic,
- more unconfirmed,
- most conjecturable,
- most contestable,
- most pretending,
- most refutable,
- most stochastic,
- most unconfirmed,
- pre tending,
- pre-tending,
- un confirmed,
- un-confirmed.
-
ideal
- out of reach,
- high flown,
- highflown,
- in clouds,
- ivory-tower,
- ivorytower,
- more ivory-tower,
- more ivorytower,
- more out of reach,
- most ivory tower,
- most ivory-tower,
- most ivorytower,
- most out of reach,
- most out-of-reach,
- out-of-reach,
- un attainable,
- un earthlier,
- un earthliest,
- un earthly,
- un-attainable,
- un-earthlier,
- un-earthliest,
- un-earthly.
- illegitimate
- imaginative
- insincere
- intangible
- invented
- irrelevant
-
legendary
- handed-down,
- unverifiable,
- Told,
- Unhistorical,
- handeddown,
- more handed down,
- more handed-down,
- more handeddown,
- more told,
- more unhistoric,
- more unhistorical,
- more unverifiable,
- most handed down,
- most handed-down,
- most handeddown,
- most told,
- most unhistoric,
- most unhistorical,
- most unverifiable,
- re-lated,
- un historic,
- un historical,
- un verifiable,
- un-historic,
- un-historical,
- un-verifiable,
- unhistoric,
- well known,
- wellknown.
- mock
- mythical
-
nominal
- in name only,
- self-styled,
- as advertised,
- in effect only,
- in expensive,
- in-expensive,
- low priced,
- lowpriced,
- more puppet,
- more purported,
- more self styled,
- more self-styled,
- more selfstyled,
- more token,
- most puppet,
- most purported,
- most self styled,
- most self-styled,
- most selfstyled,
- most token,
- self styled,
- selfstyled.
- phony
- pseudo
- sham
- simulated
- specious
- synthetic
- theatrical
- unnatural
- untrue
- utopian
- weird
- conceptual, theoretical
- relating to theories, philosophy
- all
- changed in a bad or artificial way
- questionable; fake
- seeming, not proven real
- fake; imitation
- illusory/illusive
- not white
- conditional; possible
- overly planned
- fake, simulated
- dishonest, insincere
- lying, untruthful
-
hypocritical
- feigning,
- moralistic,
- smooth-spoken,
- lefthanded,
- hypo critical,
- hypo-critical,
- jivey,
- jivier,
- jiviest,
- left handed,
- more caviling,
- more dissembling,
- more feigning,
- more moralistic,
- more smooth spoken,
- more smooth-spoken,
- more smoothspoken,
- most caviling,
- most dissembling,
- most feigning,
- most moralistic,
- most smooth spoken,
- most smooth-spoken,
- most smoothspoken,
- self righteous,
- selfrighteous,
- smooth spoken,
- smooth tongued,
- smoothspoken,
- smoothtongued.
- resembling a dream
- illusory, romantic
- wrong, incorrect
- overstated, embellished
- false, wrong
- wrong, made up
- imaginary, romantic
- strange, different; imaginary
- untrue, made-up
- doubtful, suspicious
- mythical/mythological
- deceptive, false
- without reason, justification
- empty, hollowed out
- deceitful, pretending
- conceptual; impractical
- fictitious, invented
- creative, inventive
- not likely
- weak, imaginary
- indefinite, obscured
- fictitious but well known
- invented mentally
- imagined, unreal
- gaudy, flashy
- not physical; without physical presence
- surprisingly wonderful
- artificial, fake
- supposed, theoretical
- fictional, not real
- fake, false
- artificial; made of manufactured compounds
- alleged; imaginary
- extrasensory in perception
-
genuine in existence
- counterfeit,
- dishonest,
- disputable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- fake,
- false,
- feigned,
- flexible,
- fraudulent,
- hidden,
- imaginary,
- immaterial,
- indefinite,
- intangible,
- invalid,
- mental,
- obscure,
- questionable,
- spiritual,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unfit,
- unhealthy,
- unimportant,
- unreal,
- unreliable,
- unstable,
- unsure,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- vague.
- sentimental, idealistic
- counterfeit, fake
- emotional; based on inner experience rather than fact
- mysterious, not of this world
- having a title
- beyond the imagination
- not based on fact
- not regular; artificial
- fake, make-believe; hypothetical
- imaginary, ideal
- odd, bizarre
-
Other relevant words
- fancied,
- appear,
- seem,
- put on,
- aery,
- trompe-l'oeil,
- dreamed,
- fabricated,
- pictured,
- nominally,
- slightly,
- negligibly,
- alleged,
- apocryphal,
- arch,
- assuming,
- baseless,
- calculating,
- canny,
- civilized,
- conceived,
- cosmopolitan,
- critical,
- crooked,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- cynical,
- dishonest,
- disputed,
- dissembling,
- dissimulating,
- exploded,
- flattering,
- frivolous,
- guileful,
- hypocritical,
- imagined,
- imitation,
- insincere,
- knavish,
- manipulative,
- manufactured,
- mealymouthed,
- misleading,
- mistrustful,
- nonexistent,
- platonic,
- polished,
- pretentious,
- refined,
- reported,
- romantic,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skeptical,
- slippery,
- smooth,
- sophisticated,
- suppositious,
- supposititious,
- suspicious,
- sycophantic,
- symbolic,
- two-faced,
- unauthorized,
- unctuous,
- underhanded,
- untrue,
- virtual,
- visionary,
- wary,
- worldly,
- worldly-wise,
- Inexistent.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
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- Antonyms:
- criticize, decrease, depreciate.
