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imaginary — adj 1 Imaginary, fanciful, visionary, fantastic, chimerical, quixotic are comparable when they are applied to conceptions or to the persons who form the conceptions and mean unreal or unbelievable and out of keeping with things as they are or… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
imaginary — (adj.) not real, late 14c., ymaginaire, from IMAGINE (Cf. imagine) + ARY (Cf. ary); or else from L.L. imaginarius seeming, fancied, from imaginari. Imaginary friend (one who does not exist) attested by 1789 … Etymology dictionary
imaginary — [adj] fictitious, invented abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed up*, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool’s paradise*, hallucinatory, hypothetical,… … New thesaurus
imaginary — adj. VERBS ▪ be ADVERB ▪ completely, entirely, purely, wholly ▪ The characters in this book are purely imaginary. ▪ … Collocations dictionary
imaginary — [i maj′i ner΄ē] adj. [L imaginarius] 1. existing only in the imagination; fanciful; unreal 2. Math. designating or of the square root of a negative quantity, or of a complex number that is not real imaginarily adv. imaginariness n … English World dictionary
imaginary — adj fictitious, unreal, fancied, fanciful, fantastic; illusory, dreamy, visionary, shadowy, chimerical; mythical, legendary, mythological; figmental, fictive, notional, abstract; quixotic, Utopian, romantic, idealistic; extravagant, wild, high… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
imaginary — adj. 1 existing only in the imagination. 2 Math. being the square root of a negative quantity, and plotted graphically in a direction usu. perpendicular to the axis of real quantities (see REAL(1)). Derivatives: imaginarily adv. Etymology: ME f.… … Useful english dictionary
imaginary — imaginarily, adv. imaginariness, n. /i maj euh ner ee/, adj., n., pl. imaginaries. adj. 1. existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss. n. 2. Math. See… … Universalium
imaginary — [[t]ɪmæ̱ʤɪnəri, AM neri[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n An imaginary person, place, or thing exists only in your mind or in a story, and not in real life. Lots of children have imaginary friends. ...creating an imaginary world … English dictionary
imaginary — imag·i·nary im aj ə .ner ē adj existing only in imagination: lacking factual reality <imaginary fears> <an imaginary illness> … Medical dictionary
