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Synonyms & Antonyms of actual
existing in fact and not merely as a possibility
- the actual outcome of the election was quite different from what everybody had expected
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- chimerical
- (also chimeric),
- fabled,
- fanciful,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- illusory,
- legendary
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