"the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West" Potential, possible, latent, unreal, noncurrent, false "rocks and trees.the actual world" "actual heroism" "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced" Potential, noncurrent, unreal, possible, false, latent Literal, true(a), tangible, material, real, veridical, existent, genuine, factual, unfeigned, echt, substantial, real(a) "her actual motive" "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton "a genuine dilemma" Unreal, latent, noncurrent, potential, possible, falseīeing or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something Literal, genuine, existent, real, factual "we saw the actual wedding on television" "filmed the actual beating" Taking place in reality not pretended or imitated Noncurrent, unreal, potential, latent, possible, false "the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different" "actual and imagined conditions"Įxisting, literal, genuine, existent, real, factual Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate these synonyms: Compare AUTHENTIC.Īuthentic, certain, demonstrable, developed, essential, genuine, positive, real, substantial, true, unquestionable, veritableĬonceived, fabulous, fanciful, feigned, fictitious, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, reported, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, unreal, untrue, visionary Real estate is land, together with trees, water, minerals, or other natural accompaniments, and any permanent structures that man has built upon it. The present condition of a thing is its actual condition ills are real that have a substantial reason proofs are positive when they give the mind certainty a plant is developed when it has reached its completed stage. The developed is susceptible of proof the positive precludes the necessity for proof. Actual is in opposition to the supposed, conceived, or reported, and furnishes the proof of its existence in itself real is opposed to feigned or imaginary, and is capable of demonstration positive, to the uncertain or doubtful developed, to that which is undeveloped or incomplete. Actual has respect to a thing accomplished by doing, real to a thing as existing by whatever means or from whatever cause, positive to that which is fixed or established, developed to that which has reached completion by a natural process of unfolding. Real (Latin res, a thing) signifies having existence, not merely in thought, but in fact, or being in fact according to appearance or claim denoting the thing as distinguished from the name, or the existent as opposed to the non-existent.