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Definition of imaginary in English: imaginaryadjective ɪˈmadʒɪn(ə)riɪˈmædʒəˌnɛri 1Existing only in the imagination. Chris had imaginary conversations with her Example sentencesExamples - There exist countless instances of the type, present and past, real and imaginary, actual and potential.
- The mandala represents an imaginary palace that is contemplated during meditation.
- I couldn't go into my own imaginary world far away and try to block out all of these problems.
- How they coped with this transfer of power is a vital part of these imaginary conversations.
- In the first place, the film depicts some imaginary breed of gracious and principled gangsters.
- The blood was fake and the flames imaginary, but the task facing the emergency services could have been very real.
- The only saving grace is that most children take it for granted that spirits and the like are imaginary beings.
- This would mean that your imaginary satellite would need to be located out beyond all the planets, a dozen times as far away as Pluto.
- These fears are mainly imaginary, and most are born of a highly developed imagination gone astray.
- He invented imaginary worlds in which he was the king, and everyone had obey him.
- Is an imaginary campaign manager really the worst political decision you've heard lately?
- Not only is he a modern star playing a classic star, he's playing him as an imaginary figure.
- Fears of vote-tampering and vote suppression are far from exaggerated or imaginary.
- To escape reality, I invented an imaginary world and began writing poetry.
- This image is of an imaginary circle that each person draws around him/herself.
- It lies halfway between Orkney and Shetland on an imaginary line dividing the North Sea from the North Atlantic.
- I bowed to an imaginary crowd and pretended to thank my parents and all who believed in me.
- The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfilments of repressed wishes is hopelessly out of date.
- Don't get into obeying imaginary voices in your head or anything daft like that.
- While he talks, his feet move constantly - tapping away to an imaginary beat.
Synonyms unreal, non-existent, fictional, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, mythical, mythological, legendary, storybook, fanciful, fantastic made-up, dreamed-up, invented, concocted, fabricated, fancied, the product of someone's imagination illusory, illusive, figmental, hallucinatory, phantasmal, phantasmic, a figment of someone's imagination dreamy, dreamlike, shadowy, unsubstantial, chimerical, ethereal virtual, notional, hypothetical, theoretical assumed, supposed, suppositious archaic visionary 2Mathematics
(of a number or quantity) expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number (usually the square root of −1, represented by i or j). See also complex Example sentencesExamples - The idea is based on an ingenious use of the properties of imaginary numbers.
- What was most perplexing was that in using these subtle and imaginary numbers it was possible to solve cubic equations.
- It also only worked, he noted, when certain imaginary parts of two complex numbers cancelled out.
Derivatives adverb Symbolically excluded, imaginarily plagued by the fury of vanishment, yet omnipresent, disgust marks the position of a tabooed reality: one that never stops returning to the field of the aesthetic in order once again to be ejected. Example sentencesExamples - For him, of course, a crucial analytical sleight of words is needed to disentangle this collapse of the symbolic ego ideal and the ideal ego fixed on the imaginarily loaded object.
- Her sapphire gaze traveled across the room as if watching a film of her own past imaginarily.
- Even though I am in a happy relationship I plan on purchasing two imaginary girlfriends in the near future so that I can imaginarily cheat on one of them.
- The bystanders also imaginarily expand the scene beyond the picture frame: it is as if the gift, dropped like a stone, rippled from the inner court to the outer household and, beyond, to the city of Paris.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin imaginarius, from imago, imagin- 'image'. Definition of imaginary in US English: imaginaryadjectiveɪˈmædʒəˌnɛriiˈmajəˌnerē 1Existing only in the imagination. Chris had imaginary conversations with her Example sentencesExamples - I bowed to an imaginary crowd and pretended to thank my parents and all who believed in me.
- The mandala represents an imaginary palace that is contemplated during meditation.
- The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfilments of repressed wishes is hopelessly out of date.
- He invented imaginary worlds in which he was the king, and everyone had obey him.
- Fears of vote-tampering and vote suppression are far from exaggerated or imaginary.
- To escape reality, I invented an imaginary world and began writing poetry.
- While he talks, his feet move constantly - tapping away to an imaginary beat.
- How they coped with this transfer of power is a vital part of these imaginary conversations.
- In the first place, the film depicts some imaginary breed of gracious and principled gangsters.
- Is an imaginary campaign manager really the worst political decision you've heard lately?
- This would mean that your imaginary satellite would need to be located out beyond all the planets, a dozen times as far away as Pluto.
- There exist countless instances of the type, present and past, real and imaginary, actual and potential.
- This image is of an imaginary circle that each person draws around him/herself.
- I couldn't go into my own imaginary world far away and try to block out all of these problems.
- It lies halfway between Orkney and Shetland on an imaginary line dividing the North Sea from the North Atlantic.
- These fears are mainly imaginary, and most are born of a highly developed imagination gone astray.
- Don't get into obeying imaginary voices in your head or anything daft like that.
- The only saving grace is that most children take it for granted that spirits and the like are imaginary beings.
- Not only is he a modern star playing a classic star, he's playing him as an imaginary figure.
- The blood was fake and the flames imaginary, but the task facing the emergency services could have been very real.
Synonyms unreal, non-existent, fictional, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, mythical, mythological, legendary, storybook, fanciful, fantastic 2Mathematics
(of a number or quantity) expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number (usually the square root of −1, represented by i or j). See also complex Example sentencesExamples - The idea is based on an ingenious use of the properties of imaginary numbers.
- It also only worked, he noted, when certain imaginary parts of two complex numbers cancelled out.
- What was most perplexing was that in using these subtle and imaginary numbers it was possible to solve cubic equations.
Usage Imaginary means ‘product of the imagination, unreal.’ Imaginative means ‘showing imagination, original.’ Science fiction, for example, deals with imaginary people, places, and events; how imaginative it is depends on the writer's ability Origin Late Middle English: from Latin imaginarius, from imago, imagin- ‘image’. |