different between unreal vs storied

English

Etymology

un- +? real

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n-r?l', IPA^(key): /?n??i.?l/
• Rhymes: -i??l

Adjective

unreal (comparative more unreal, superlative most unreal)

1. fake; not real
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     "The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."

2. (informal) very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.

   The video includes unreal footage of an eight-metre wave.

   I just had an unreal hamburger.

Synonyms

• (not real): See also Thesaurus:fake or Thesaurus:insubstantial
• (very impressive): See also Thesaurus:awesome

Antonyms

• (not real): real; See also Thesaurus:genuine

Translations

Anagrams

• Lauren, neural, ulnare

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st???id/

Alternative forms

• storeyed (UK, sense 3)

Adjective

storied (comparative more storied, superlative most storied)

1. much talked or written about
2. historical
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

3. (chiefly US) having multiple storeys; multistoried
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

     We mean a porch, or cloister, or the like, of one contignation, and not in storied buildings.

Verb

storied

1. simple past tense and past participle of story

Anagrams

• destroi, doiters, editors, oestrid, ostreid, roisted, sortied, steroid, tie rods, tierods, triodes