📖 Definitions of "Imaginary"
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Imagination; fancy.
- 2
An imaginary quantity.
- 3
The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
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Existing only in the imagination.
"Santa Claus is imaginary."
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(of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
🔄 Synonyms of "Imaginary"
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Imaginary"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| imaginedverb | Conceived or envisioned in the mind. |
| notional | Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary. |
| fanciful | Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality. |
| unreal | Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality. |
| fantasynoun | (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc. |
| imaginationnoun | The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images. |
| imaginative | Having a lively or creative imagination. |
| fabled | Made known by fables or reputation; legendary, famed. |
| fictional | Invented, as opposed to real. |
| commentitious | (rare) fictitious, imaginary. |
| imaginable | Able to be imagined; conceivable. |
| fantastic | Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier). |
| fictive | Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional. |
| legendary | Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories. |
| fictitious | Invented; contrived. |
| made-up | Invented or fabricated. |
| psychenoun | The human soul, mind, or spirit. |
| hypothetical | Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural. |
| fancy | Decorative, or featuring decorations, especially intricate or diverse ones. |
| dreamnoun | (countable) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. |
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