About The Word Imaginary
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Imaginary
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What's The Definition Of Imaginary?
[adj] not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Imaginary: fanciful | imagined | notional | unreal Related Terms | Find terms related to Imaginary: abstract | air-built | airy | algorismic | algorithmic | aliquot | apparent | apparitional | autistic | Barmecidal | Barmecide | cardinal | chimeric | chimerical | cloud-built | deceptive | decimal | delusional | delusionary | delusive | delusory | dereistic | differential | digital | dreamlike | dreamy | erroneous | ethereal | even | exponential | fallacious | false | fancied | fanciful | fantastic | fatuitous | fatuous | fictional | fictitious | fictive | figmental | figural | figurate | figurative | finite | fractional | gaseous | gossamery | hallucinatory | hypothetical | ideal | illusional | illusionary | illusive | illusory | imaginational | imaginative | imagined | immaterial | impair | impossible | infinite | integral | irrational | legendary | logarithmic | logometric | made-up | merely nominal | misleading | mythic | mythical | mythological | negative | nonexistent | not real | notional | numeral | numerary | numerative | numeric | odd | ordinal | ostensible | pair | phantasmagoric | phantasmal | phantasmic | phantom | phantomlike | positive | possible | prime | quixotic | radical | rarefied | rational | real | reciprocal | seeming | self-deceptive | self-deluding | shadowy | specious | spectral | spirituous | submultiple | subtile | subtle | supposititious | surd | tenuous | transcendental | unactual | unfounded | unreal | unrealistic | unsubstantial | untrue | vaporous | visional | visionary | windy See Also | Imaginary In Webster's Dictionary \Im*ag"i*na*ry\, a. [L. imaginarius: cf. F.
imaginaire.]
Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied;
visionary; ideal.
Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills
and fancied tortures? --Addison.
{Imaginary calculus} See under {Calculus}.
{Imaginary expression} or {quantity} (Alg.), an algebraic
expression which involves the impossible operation of
taking the square root of a negative quantity; as,
[root]-9, a + b [root]-1.
{Imaginary points}, {lines}, {surfaces}, etc. (Geom.),
points, lines, surfaces, etc., imagined to exist, although
by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact
ceased to have a real existence.
Syn: Ideal; fanciful; chimerical; visionary; fancied; unreal;
illusive.
\Im*ag"i*na*ry\, n. (Alg.) An imaginary expression or quantity. |
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