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adj. having been paved

adj. used of faces; "painted faces"

adj. formed by fitting or joining components together

fictitious, fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictive, invented

adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"

unrealistic

adj. not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"

lacking, wanting, nonexistent, missing

adj. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"

imitation, fake, false, simulated, faux

adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"

sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, feigned, fictitious, pretended

adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

unnatural

adj. not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death"

romantic, wild-eyed, quixotic, unrealistic

adj. not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"

tarmacadam, tarmac, macadam, asphalt, macadamized

adj. (paved)

blacktopped

adj. surfaced with a bituminous material

brick

adj. "follow the yellow brick road"

cobblestone, cobblestoned

adj. (paved)

hard-surfaced

adj. (paved)

sealed

adj. having been paved

stained, finished, oiled, varnished

adj. having a coating of stain or varnish

aggregate, agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered

adj. clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower head"

aggregate, mass, aggregative

adj. gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"

collectivized

adj. characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production

deceptive, delusory

adj. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

dreamlike, surreal

adj. resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream"

eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil

adj. creating the illusion of seeing reality; "the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art"

legendary, fabled

adj. celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James"

fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological

adj. based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn"

fanciful

adj. not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

hallucinatory

adj. characterized by or characteristic of hallucination ; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford

illusional, illusionary

adj. marked by or producing illusion; "illusionary stage effects"

illusive, illusory

adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

notional, imaginary, imagined

adj. not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

play, make-believe, pretend

adj. imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"

phantom

adj. something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"

real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

factual, actual

adj. existing in act or fact; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"

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