| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | abortive | failing to achieve intended result |
| 2. | abstract | not tied to practical reality |
| 3. | absurd | wildly unreasonable or impossible |
| 4. | academic | theoretical rather than practical |
| 5. | armchair | theoretical without real experience |
| 6. | baseless | without factual support |
| 7. | blind | failing to see reality |
| 8. | blinkered | narrowly ignoring reality |
| 9. | blue-sky | highly imaginative and impractical |
| 10. | childish | immature in thought or expectation |
| 11. | chimerical | wildly fanciful and impossible |
| 12. | cloud-cuckoo-land | wildly detached from reality |
| 13. | counterfactual | contrary to the actual facts |
| 14. | crackpot | wildly impractical or foolish |
| 15. | crazy | very foolish or unrealistic |
| 16. | daft | silly and lacking sense |
| 17. | daydreamy | lost in unrealistic thoughts |
| 18. | delirious | wildly irrational or unrealistic |
| 19. | delusional | holding false beliefs about reality |
| 20. | detached | separated from practical reality |
| 21. | disconnected | not linked to real conditions |
| 22. | dreamlike | removed from ordinary reality |
| 23. | dubious | causing doubt about truth |
| 24. | exaggerated | represented as more than true |
| 25. | extravagant | excessively ambitious or elaborate |
| 26. | fanciful | overly imaginative and not practical |
| 27. | fantastic | imaginative beyond likelihood |
| 28. | fantastical | highly imaginative and unreal |
| 29. | far-fetched | hard to believe or accept |
| 30. | fictional | invented rather than real |
| 31. | grandiose | impressively large but impractical |
| 32. | groundless | without good reason or evidence |
| 33. | harebrained | recklessly foolish and impractical |
| 34. | head-in-the-clouds | detached from practical reality |
| 35. | hopeless | offering no real chance |
| 36. | idealistic | guided by ideals, not reality |
| 37. | ill-conceived | poorly planned from the start |
| 38. | imaginary | existing only in the mind |
| 39. | implausible | not seeming likely or believable |
| 40. | impossible | unable to happen or be done |
| 41. | impractical | not workable in real life |
| 42. | improbable | unlikely to be true or happen |
| 43. | infeasible | not practical or possible |
| 44. | juvenile | immature and unrealistic |
| 45. | laughable | ridiculously implausible or foolish |
| 46. | long-shot | having very little chance |
| 47. | ludicrous | so unreasonable as to be laughable |
| 48. | make-believe | pretend rather than real |
| 49. | misguided | based on poor understanding |
| 50. | misjudged | wrongly assessed or estimated |
| 51. | moonshot | extremely ambitious and uncertain |
| 52. | myopic | lacking broader practical vision |
| 53. | mythical | existing only in imagination |
| 54. | naive | showing lack of real-world judgment |
| 55. | nonsensical | making no practical sense |
| 56. | nonstarter | plan with no chance |
| 57. | nonviable | unable to work successfully |
| 58. | nuts | absurdly unrealistic or foolish |
| 59. | off-base | incorrect or badly mistaken |
| 60. | off-the-wall | odd and wildly impractical |
| 61. | optimistic | hopeful beyond likely reality |
| 62. | outlandish | strangely unrealistic or bizarre |
| 63. | overambitious | too large to achieve |
| 64. | overblown | made larger than reality |
| 65. | overoptimistic | too hopeful about outcomes |
| 66. | pie-eyed | foolishly dreamy or unrealistic |
| 67. | pie-in-the-sky | pleasant but unlikely idea |
| 68. | pipe-dream | unlikely hope or plan |
| 69. | Pollyannaish | excessively cheerful and hopeful |
| 70. | preposterous | ridiculously unreasonable or unlikely |
| 71. | questionable | open to doubt or suspicion |
| 72. | quixotic | nobly unrealistic and impractical |
| 73. | remote | very unlikely to happen |
| 74. | removed | distant from actual circumstances |
| 75. | ridiculous | deserving mockery for implausibility |
| 76. | romanticized | made better than reality |
| 77. | rosy | too positive about prospects |
| 78. | sanguine | confidently hopeful despite risks |
| 79. | senseless | without reasonable purpose or logic |
| 80. | shaky | weak and not dependable |
| 81. | shortsighted | not seeing future consequences |
| 82. | silly | showing poor judgment |
| 83. | slim | having little chance of success |
| 84. | starry-eyed | naively hopeful and idealistic |
| 85. | surreal | strangely unreal or dreamlike |
| 86. | tenuous | weakly supported or likely |
| 87. | theoretical | existing in theory only |
| 88. | unachievable | not able to be accomplished |
| 89. | unattainable | not able to be reached |
| 90. | unfeasible | not possible to carry out |
| 91. | unlikely | not expected to happen |
| 92. | unrealizable | not capable of being achieved |
| 93. | unreasonable | not sensible under the circumstances |
| 94. | unworkable | not capable of practical success |
| 95. | utopian | perfect but not achievable |
| 96. | visionary | having ideas beyond current reality |
| 97. | way-out | extremely unconventional and unlikely |
| 98. | wild | extreme and not realistic |
| 99. | wishful | based on hope, not facts |
| 100. | wrongheaded | stubbornly misguided or foolish |