unrealistic

unrealistic
Synonyms and related words:
airy, autistic, delusional, delusive, delusory, dereistic, fanciful, idealistic, illogical, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, in the clouds, inaccurate, merely nominal, not real, otherworldly, poetic, quixotic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, starry-eyed, storybook, transcendental, transmundane, unactual, unauthentic, unnatural, unpractical, unreal, unrealizable, unreasonable, unrepresentative, unsubstantial, unworkable, visionary, wish-fulfilling

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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