dreamed-up

ADJECTIVE

imaginary

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abstract fanciful fantastic fictional hypothetical imagined theoretical unreal whimsical

STRONG

ideal visionary

WEAK

apocryphal apparitional assumed chimerical deceptive delusive dreamlike dreamy fabulous fancied figmental fool's paradise hallucinatory illusive illusory imaginative legendary made-up mythological nonexistent notional phantasmal phantasmic quixotic shadowy spectral supposed supposititious trumped-up unsubstantial

Antonyms

STRONGEST

factual ordinary proven real

STRONG

practical

WEAK

existing genuine physical substantial true

ADJECTIVE

notional

Synonyms

WEAK

abstract apocryphal apparitional assumed chimeric chimerical conceptual deceptive delusive dreamlike dreamy fabulous fancied fanciful fantastic fantastical fictional figmental fool's paradise hallucinatory hypothetical ideal illusive illusory imaginative imagined legendary made-up mythological nonexistent phantasmal phantasmic quixotic shadowy spectral supposed supposititious theoretical trumped-up unreal unsubstantial visionary whimsical

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But the prize was a fiction, as was the body that supposedly awarded it, the International Society of Philology - both apparently dreamed up by Montaclair to burnish his academic credentials.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

So they dreamed up Mic Drop, an upscale karaoke lounge in West Hollywood that opens Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Ford dreamed up the atomic-age Nucleon, powered by a tiny nugget of uranium and incidentally requiring tons of lead shielding to protect anyone who came within a football field of the thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Never mind that it was said to have been dreamed up by kids at a soda fountain that Short frequented and referred mainly to her upswept hairdo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

dreamed-up

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