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Imaginary Definition And Meaning
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 \Imag"inary\, 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. \Imag"inary\, n. (Alg.) An imaginary expression or quantity.

Imaginary Definition And Meaning

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

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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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