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

Barmecidal Barmecide affected air-built airy apocryphal apparent apparitional artificial assumed autistic bastard bogus brummagem chimeric chimerical cloud-built colorable colored counterfeit counterfeited deceptive delusional delusionary delusive delusory dereistic distorted dreamlike dreamy dressed up dummy embellished embroidered erroneous ersatz ethereal factitious fake faked fallacious FALSE falsified fancied fanciful fantastic fatuitous fatuous feigned fictional fictitious fictive figmental fraudulent garbled gaseous gossamery hypothetical illegitimate illusional illusionary illusive illusory imaginary imaginational imagined imitation immaterial junky made-up make-believe man-made merely nominal misleading mock mythical nonexistent not real notional ostensible perverted phantasmagoric phantasmal phantom phantomlike phony pinchbeck pretended pseudo put-on quasi queer rarefied seeming self-deceptive self-deluding self-styled shadowy sham shoddy simulated so-called soi-disant specious spectral spirituous spurious subtile subtle supposititious synthesized synthetic tenuous theoretical tin tinsel titivated twisted unactual unauthentic unfounded ungenuine unnatural unrealistic unsubstantial vaporous visional visionary warped windy