imaginary as a noun: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
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imaginary
noun
1 imaginary
adjective
1 imaginary
Not based on fact; existing only in the imagination:
— A small child's imaginary friends.
synonyms: fanciful, notional.
Roget 84:
numeral,
complementary,
divisible,
aliquot,
reciprocal,
prime,
relatively prime,
fractional,
decimal,
figurate†,
incommensurable.
proportional,
exponential,
logarithmic,
logometric†,
differential,
fluxional†,
integral,
totitive†.
positive,
negative;
rational,
irrational;
surd,
radical,
real;
complex,
imaginary;
finite;
infinite;
impossible.
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Roget 515:
imagined
etc.
v.;
ben trovato [It];
air drawn,
airbuilt†.
imagining
etc.
v.,
imaginative;
original,
inventive,
creative,
fertile.
romantic,
high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic,
unrealistic,
Utopian,
Quixotic.
ideal,
unreal;
in the clouds,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubsantial†
etc.
4;
illusory
etc.
(fallacious)
495.
fabulous,
legendary;
mythical,
mythic,
mythological;
chimerical;
imaginary,
visionary;
notional;
fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical†;
whimsical;
fairy,
fairy-like;
gestic†.
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