unrealistic
Movies portray women unrealistically.
Prices are falling and are obviously unrealistically high in many parts of the country.
Congress kept tax rates unrealistically low.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Useless and futile
adrift
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
airy-fairy
fruitless
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
futile
futilely
negate
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no goodidiom
non-viable
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unseriousness
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unviability

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Logic and reason

Examples of unrealistically

unrealistically
Fair rents are sometimes unrealistically low relative to house prices.
But such crude averages limit unrealistically the level of monastic poor relief in the 1530s.
If the latter embraced them unrealistically warmly, the former rejected them equally unrealistically coldly.
The former capitalism is utopian because it unrealistically assumes complete contracting and unimpeded, efficient bargaining.
Care must be taken to avoid either setting goals which are unrealistically difficult, with potential to demotivate, or goals which are too easy to attain.
Given that students will be studying other aspects of earth science, besides, perhaps, ancillary subjects, the scope does seem unrealistically wide.
First, the beetles enclosed with dung in the laboratory had no opportunity of escape, so that their exposure to insecticide may have been unrealistically long.
Yet that failure is measured perhaps unrealistically against a goal nothing short of utopia and within a time frame of 25 to 40 years.
However, they were not unrealistically high and the ratio of beetle to slug density is probably typical of many situations in the field.
The voltage sensor described by this equation is probably unrealistically simple, with a single charged group moving completely across the membrane in a single step.
And finally, they have unrealistically high expectations of the positive rights government should deliver.
Since 1973 and 1992 were very wet years, the resulting estimations of lipid content are probably unrealistically high.
These, of course, were the antithesis of what they had (perhaps rather unrealistically) hoped for.
Also, if inbreeding were the sole cause of the elevated incidence of colour vision defect, the level of inbreeding would have to be unrealistically high.
Both accords set an unrealistically short period of preparation for elections.
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