Adjective: irreal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more irreal |
| Superlative | most irreal |
Sample Sentences
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'Irreal' objects draw on our previous sensual experience but have never existed; they are created through the spontaneous intentional operations of the imagination. [2012, T. Dant, Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society through the Small Screen, →ISBN:]
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It is a shift to the ego conceived as irreal, as non-worldly. [2013, J. Mensch, The Question of Being in Husserl’s Logical Investigations, →ISBN, page 8:]
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The irreal spatiality of school dining rooms, including such things as décor, furnishings, modes of ordering, manner of queuing, ambience, 'feel', can also, as we have seen, actively limit these governmental ambitions. [2014, J. Pike, P. Kelly, The Moral Geographies of Children, Young People and Food, →ISBN:]
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It is impossible to directly access the imaginations of others, to know precisely if and how an imagined 'irreal' future is felt by an individual or shared by a 'collective', or to know if one has shared it oneself. [2015, Sarah Pink, Doing Sensory Ethnography, →ISBN:]
Adjectives inflected like irreal
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin irrealis, from in- (“un-: not”) + reālis (“real, material, tangible, composed of physical things”), from res (“thing”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”). Doublet of irrealis.
Verbs referencing "irreal"
Finnish Adjectives
irreaalinen.