Difference between Phantom and Unreal

What is the difference between Phantom and Unreal?

Phantom as an adjective is illusive while Unreal as an adjective is fake; not real

Phantom

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: illusive fictitious or nonexistent

Example sentence: People feel they can just pass judgement with a tweet or with a comment and then you're supposed to change your life for them. I can't worry about what some phantom individual online has to say about me.

Unreal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: fake; not reallarger or more fantastic than typical of real life

Example sentence: I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

We hope you now know whether to use Phantom or Unreal in your sentence.

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