What's the difference between unreal and unrealistic?

Unreal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe it’s all unreal, all the way down, the speeches, the photo opportunities?
  • (2) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
  • (3) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
  • (4) This earlier shadow, this yearning and refracted autobiography, places Ballard at the heart of fiction of the unreal.
  • (5) Overall, panic symptoms could be grouped into three categories: early symptoms--consisting of dyspnea, palpitations, chest discomfort, and hot flashes; intermediate symptoms--including shaking, choking, feelings of unreality, sweats, faintness, and dizziness; late symptoms-consisting of fear and paresthesias.
  • (6) It demonstrates a previously unrealized advantage of confocal optical microscopy.
  • (7) Protein separation has been achieved by electrical field-flow fractionation, a heretofore unrealized separation technique.
  • (8) And with that she clutches a bejewelled hand to what is famously the most unreal part of her anatomy.
  • (9) To be racing for the school, feeling unreal, light, weightless, powered by gut fear alone.
  • (10) It is unbelievable, it is almost unreal that we were able to come together so quickly to craft a compromise that both Democrats and Republicans can find a way to support and move forward,” said Democratic representative John Lewis, of Georgia, who was a leader from the civil rights era.
  • (11) Faced with this mutant telly genre masquerading as reality, soaps have become unreal just when we needed them to be otherwise.
  • (12) Although there was an initial tendency on the part of students to regard the exercise as 'unreal', they delighted in refining their communication skills and trying out their skills in problem solving.
  • (13) In a word: Hollyoaks has become Geordie Shore and The Only Way Is Essex – as unreal as its purported reality show counterparts.
  • (14) After about 10 days of regular triazolam they tended to develop panics and depression, felt unreal, and sometimes paranoid.
  • (15) But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
  • (16) The amount of times he’s given the ball away is unreal.
  • (17) Eight normal subjects were studied in laboratory by the awakening technique, and the dream contents were rated by two judges according to nine scaled dimensions: unreality, participation of the dreamer, pleasantness, unpleasantness, verbal aggresivity, physical aggressivity, sexuality, sensoriality and time of reference in the dreamer's life.
  • (18) Budding fashion designers will certainly have a lot of potential products to toy with, some of which are so futuristic that they seem almost unreal.
  • (19) The commission president accused Johnson of painting an unreal picture of the EU for the British public and said he should return to Brussels, where he previously worked as a journalist, to see whether his claims chimed with “reality”.
  • (20) Computers have unrealized potential in investigation and clinical care.

Unrealistic


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of its demands are wildly unrealistic, such as the reintroduction of direct rule and the suspension of devolution.
  • (2) However, this volume of blood is an unrealistic amount to take from the frequently febrile pediatric patient.
  • (3) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
  • (4) Or is this new low just as unrealistic as the original high?
  • (5) The simplest models make a variety of unrealistic assumptions and an outline is presented of how the assumptions of fingerprint band population frequency equality and mutation rate constancy can be relaxed to produce a more realistic and powerful model.
  • (6) Labour said it would not respond to the threat posed by Ukip by supporting unrealistic targets for net migration or proposing radical changes to the free movement of workers which would probably be rejected by the rest of the EU.
  • (7) Tony Pulis hopes his only transfer business before the close of play at 11pm on Monday is incoming rather than outgoing at West Bromwich Albion but the manager has warned against unrealistic expectations if Saido Berahino remains after the striker marked his return with two goals.
  • (8) Furthermore, a careful selection of the facts to be documented must be established, because a "complete clinical documentation" is unrealistic.
  • (9) It’s not complicated and it’s not an unrealistic wish list.
  • (10) Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.
  • (11) But he concluded: "You've been evasive, repetitive and unrealistic."
  • (12) It is a totally unrealistic, pessimistic vision about what this country can achieve."
  • (13) Our main finding is that most addicts have a strong interest in training and employment services, but their expectations about the impact of such services is often unrealistic.
  • (14) But the scale needed, the expense and the potential unintended consequences are so great that it is widely considered unrealistic.
  • (15) Because this is often unrealistic, the only other way to keep these patients free of disease is by total dental extraction.
  • (16) This implies also the tendency that the average food intake estimated through FFQs can yield unrealistically high values for items consumed frequently.
  • (17) Unrealistic aim The executive does not dispute that the magazine division holds appeal for mass-market publishers such as IPC, Bauer and National Magazines, however, all of which could save significant sums through back office synergies.
  • (18) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, demanded a European monitoring mission in Ukraine, but conceded it would be “quite unrealistic” for the Russians to allow such a mission into Crimea .
  • (19) Urinary incontinence is a common occurrence in long term care and, given the client population, continence is often an unrealistic expectation.
  • (20) The latter calculation was lower than the ESD in three of the five instances examined, which seems unrealistic.