Definitions
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- adverb In an unreal manner; ideally.
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- adverb In an
unreal way.
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Examples
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The battery life is superb, the picture wonderful, the streaming Netflix app just...unreally cool.
Michael Jackson, trapped in the box Steven Barnes 2010
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The battery life is superb, the picture wonderful, the streaming Netflix app just...unreally cool.
Archive 2010-05-01 Steven Barnes 2010
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The greatest power in nature and art combined, it yet glided over dangerous heights in the sight of people looking up from fields and roads, as smoothly and unreally as a light miniature plaything.
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The moon Oliver was now also aloft, the radiance of both unreally brilliant, and the aurora seethed in whiteness and ice-blue.
The Queen of Air and Darkness Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1973
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She had accepted him as naturally, and yet as unreally, as she took all that life, and to the moment she had never questioned the wisdom or the happiness.
The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain
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The green of the fresh turf was as vivid as stage grass; the lilies loomed unreally large and white; the poinsettias flaunted like red paper flowers behind the vivid picture that the Captain made in a dazzling buff and green uniform picked out with gold.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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It was perhaps inevitable from Ferris's Protestant association of monks and convents and penances chiefly with the machinery of fiction, that all this affected him as unreally as talk in a stage-play.
A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878
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The umbrages lining the wrinkles, collecting in the hollows, slanting from sudden projections, may become before your eyes almost as unreally beautiful as the landscape colors of a Japanese fan; -- they shift most generally during the day from indigo-blue through violets and paler blues to final lilacs and purples; and even the shadows of passing clouds have a faint blue tinge when they fall on Pelée.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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But you need not let her ride over you as she used to do; she knows nothing really, and a great many things unreally.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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We are willing to admit that Christian writers have often spoken unreally and unsatisfactorily enough in their comments on this subject.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852
bilby commented on the word unreally
"The greatest power in nature and art combined, it yet glided over dangerous heights in the sight of people looking up from fields and roads, as smoothly and unreally as a light miniature plaything."
- Charles Dickens, 'The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices'.
August 27, 2009
yarb commented on the word unreally
I unreally love you.
August 27, 2009