单词 | imaginary |
释义 | imaginary/ɪˈmadʒɪn(ə)ri /adjective 1Existing only in the imagination: Chris had imaginary conversations with her...
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 2 Mathematics (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.What was most perplexing was that in using these subtle and imaginary numbers it was possible to solve cubic equations....
Derivativesimaginarily
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin imaginarius, from imago, imagin- 'image'. |
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