Unactual

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Not based on or corresponding to facts or reality
2. Something that does not exist in fact or does not match reality ; something not presently active or valid
3. Not grounded in actual events or truth ; not currently functioning or implemented

Etymology: "Unactual" is a plain English formation: the prefix "un-" joined to "actual." The prefix is one of the oldest and most productive in English, meaning "not" or "the reverse of," and it has been attached to native and Latinate adjectives alike. "Actual" itself comes from Late Latin "actualis," "active," from Latin "actus," "a doing," the past participle stem of "agere," "to do." Its sense of "existing in fact, real" developed in English, so "unactual" is essentially "not real or not existing in fact."

Synonyms: unreal, imaginary, fictitious

Antonyms: actual, real