These days when I hear about these horrible incidents on the news I get the feeling that more and more young people are losing their ability to distinguish between real and virtual worlds.
Source: tatoeba (243784)
Virtual
//ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəl//
Synonyms for "virtual" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (23)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
56 entriesShowing 16 of 56 words.
has context
4 entriesrelated to
16 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
115 translations across 43 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- خَيَالِيّ adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Belarusian
1 entries- віртуа́льны adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Bengali
1 entries- ভার্চুয়াল adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Bulgarian
2 entries- виртуа́лен adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- виртуа́лен adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Catalan
4 entries- virtual adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- virtual adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- virtual adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- virtual adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 虛擬 /虚拟 adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 虛擬 /虚拟 adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Czech
1 entries- virtuální adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Danish
1 entries- virtuel adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Dutch
2 entries- virtueel adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- virtueel adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Esperanto
1 entries- virtuala adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Finnish
4 entries- etä adj (operating using a computer and/or online rather than physically present)
- melkein adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- näennäinen adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- näennäinen adj (pertaining to a theoretical quality of something which would produce an observable effect if counteracting factors such as friction are disregarded)
French
3 entries- pratiquement adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- virtuel adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- virtuel adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Galician
4 entries- virtual adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- virtual adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- virtual adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- virtual adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
Georgian
4 entries- ვირტუალური adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- თითქმის adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- რეალურად adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- ფაქტიური adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
German
4 entries- computersimuliert adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- eigentlich adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- fast adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- praktisch wie adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
Greek
3 entries- εικονικός adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- εικονικός adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- εικονικός adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
Hebrew
4 entries- ווירטואלי adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- ווירטואלי adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
- כאילו adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- כביכול adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Hindi
1 entries- वर्चुअल adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Hungarian
2 entries- virtuális adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- virtuális adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Indonesian
2 entries- maya adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- maya adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Irish
2 entries- fíorúil adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- fíorúil adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
Italian
2 entries- virtuale adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- virtuale adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Japanese
4 entries- ほとんど adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- バーチャル adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- 事実上の adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- 仮想の adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Kazakh
3 entries- виртуалды adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- виртуалды adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
- виртуалдық adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Korean
1 entries- 사실상의 adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Latin
1 entries- virtualis adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Macedonian
3 entries- ви́стински adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- виртуе́лен adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- виртуе́лен adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
Malay
1 entries- maya adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Māori
2 entries- mariko adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- mariko adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Nepali
1 entries- भर्चूअल adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Persian
1 entries- مجازی adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Piedmontese
1 entries- virtual adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Polish
4 entries- dosłowny adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- rzeczywisty adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- wirtualny adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- wirtualny adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Portuguese
3 entries- virtual adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- virtual adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- virtual adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
Romanian
1 entries- virtual adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Russian
4 entries- бу́дто бы adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- виртуа́льный adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- виртуа́льный adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
- сло́вно adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Spanish
4 entries- virtual adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- virtual adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- virtual adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- virtual adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
Swedish
1 entries- virtuell adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Thai
1 entries- เสมือนจริง adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Turkish
3 entries- neredeyse adj (for practical purposes, though not technically)
- sanal adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
- sanal adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Ukrainian
3 entries- віртуа́льний adj (of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass)
- віртуальний adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
- я́к би adj (in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality)
Walloon
1 entries- forveyou adj (simulated in a computer and/or online)
Sample sentences
31 total sentences available.
Tatoeba Project is our virtual home.
Source: tatoeba (515387)
There is a growing number of people who prefer a virtual life online than a real life offline.
Source: tatoeba (518094)
Virtual memory is a memory management technique developed for multitasking kernels.
Source: tatoeba (722650)
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