English words for 'An instance of wishful thinking.'
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noun
adj
noun
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- an illusory hope
- an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
- (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
- (soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
- (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
- (figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
- Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
- Rainbow trout.
- (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
- (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
adj
- Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
- (attributive, sometimes derogatory) LGBT.
- (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
- (mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
- (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
verb
- (transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
- (intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.
- (climbing) In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
noun
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- A tale of high adventure.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a relationship between two lovers
- a story dealing with love
verb
- (transitive) To woo; to court.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- make amorous advances towards
- have a love affair with
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies
noun
- The imagining of something without evidence.
- A trace, or slight indication.
- The condition of being suspected.
- Uncertainty, doubt.
- The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
- an impression that something might be the case
- the state of being suspected
- doubt about someone's honesty
- being of a suspicious nature
verb
noun
- impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
- elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued
- The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
- The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
- (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
noun
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
- (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- a general inclusive concept
- A sentiment; an opinion.
- Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
- (colloquial) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
- (Ireland, colloquial, in the plural) Pretentiousness or overambition.
- (colloquial) Inclination; intention; predisposition; disposition.
- Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.
noun
verb
noun
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
- the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
- (glassblowing, countable) The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.
- (mining, countable) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
- (countable) A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
- An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
- A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
adj
verb
noun
adj
adj
noun
- (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
- (mathematics, countable) An imaginary number.
- Imagination; fancy.
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
adj
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
noun
noun
- An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
- The act of fleeing.
- The act of flying.
- (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
- An instance of flying.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
- Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- (by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
- (US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
- A paper airplane.
- An air force unit.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- (advertising, broadcasting) An advertising campaign of fixed length.
- a formation of aircraft in flight
- a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
- a flock of flying birds
- the act of escaping physically
- passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
- a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
- an instance of traveling by air
- an air force unit smaller than a squadron
- the path followed by an object moving through space
verb
verb
noun
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
noun
- a delusion.
- the loss of one's sense of direction, or of one's position in relationship with the surroundings.
- a state of confusion with regard to time, place or identity.
- a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug)
- confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction
adj
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
- ludicrously odd
- extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance
- existing in fancy only
- Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
adj
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
adv
verb
noun
- a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
- (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
- A fixed, false belief, that will not change, despite evidence to the contrary.
- The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
- A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
noun
- a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
- an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode
- illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder
- The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
- (artificial intelligence) A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation.
- A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.
adj
- not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
- lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
- lacking material form or substance; unreal
- contrived by art rather than nature
- (informal) very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
- Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.
noun
- Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
- (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
- (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
- Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
noun
adj
noun
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- an illusory hope
- an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
- (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
- (soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
- (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
- (figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
- Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
- Rainbow trout.
- (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
- (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
adj
- Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
- (attributive, sometimes derogatory) LGBT.
- (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
- (mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
- (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
verb
- (transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
- (intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.
- (climbing) In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
noun
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- A tale of high adventure.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a relationship between two lovers
- a story dealing with love
verb
- (transitive) To woo; to court.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- make amorous advances towards
- have a love affair with
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies
noun
- The imagining of something without evidence.
- A trace, or slight indication.
- The condition of being suspected.
- Uncertainty, doubt.
- The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
- an impression that something might be the case
- the state of being suspected
- doubt about someone's honesty
- being of a suspicious nature
verb
noun
- impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
- elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued
- The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
- The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
- (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
noun
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
- (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- a general inclusive concept
- A sentiment; an opinion.
- Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
- (colloquial) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
- (Ireland, colloquial, in the plural) Pretentiousness or overambition.
- (colloquial) Inclination; intention; predisposition; disposition.
- Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.
noun
verb
noun
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
- the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
- (glassblowing, countable) The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.
- (mining, countable) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
- (countable) A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
- An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
- A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
adj
verb
noun
adj
noun
- An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
- The act of fleeing.
- The act of flying.
- (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
- An instance of flying.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
- Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- (by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
- (US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
- A paper airplane.
- An air force unit.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- (advertising, broadcasting) An advertising campaign of fixed length.
- a formation of aircraft in flight
- a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
- a flock of flying birds
- the act of escaping physically
- passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
- a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
- an instance of traveling by air
- an air force unit smaller than a squadron
- the path followed by an object moving through space
verb
noun
- a delusion.
- the loss of one's sense of direction, or of one's position in relationship with the surroundings.
- a state of confusion with regard to time, place or identity.
- a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug)
- confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction
noun
- a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
- (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
- A fixed, false belief, that will not change, despite evidence to the contrary.
- The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
- A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
noun
- a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
- an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode
- illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder
- The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
- (artificial intelligence) A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation.
- A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.
noun
- Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
- (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
- (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
- Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
verb
noun
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
noun
adj
adj
noun
- (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
- (mathematics, countable) An imaginary number.
- Imagination; fancy.
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
adj
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
noun
adj
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
- ludicrously odd
- extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance
- existing in fancy only
- Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
adj
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
adv
verb
adj
- not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
- lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
- lacking material form or substance; unreal
- contrived by art rather than nature
- (informal) very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
- Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.