UNREALISTIC
Dictionary entry overview: What does unrealistic mean?
• UNREALISTIC (adjective)
The adjective UNREALISTIC has 1 sense:
1. not realistic
Familiarity information: UNREALISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNREALISTIC (adjective)
Meaning:
Not realistic
Context examples:
unrealistic expectations / prices at unrealistic high levels
Similar:
chimerical (produced by a wildly fanciful imagination)
delusive; false (inappropriate to reality or facts)
fantastic; wild (extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish)
kafkaesque (characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger)
phantasmagoric; phantasmagorical; surreal; surrealistic (characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions)
Also:
impossible (not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with)
impractical (not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters)
unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)
Antonym:
realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)
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"Who pats the chicken, eats the egg." (Albanian proverb)
"Love is blind." (Arabic proverb)
"He who sleeps cannot catch fish." (Corsican proverb)
