imaginary in English

adjective

1

existing only in the imagination.

Chris had imaginary conversations with her

synonyms: unreal, nonexistent, fictional, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, mythical, mythological, fabulous, fanciful, storybook, fantastic, made-up, dreamed-up, invented, concocted, fancied, illusory, illusive, a figment of one's imagination, visionary

2

(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 ).

What was most perplexing was that in using these subtle and imaginary numbers it was possible to solve cubic equations.

adjective

• unreal, nonexistent, fictional, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, mythical, mythological, fabulous, fanciful, storybook, fantastic, made-up, dreamed-up, invented, concocted, fancied, illusory, illusive, a figment of one's imagination, visionary
• fanciful, notional

noun

• imaginary number, complex number

Use "imaginary" in a sentence

1. Imaginary coefficient

2. The IMAGINARY(string) returns the imaginary coefficient of a complex

3. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

4. The story is wholly imaginary.

5. Amaranth definition, an imaginary, undying flower

6. Lots of children have imaginary friends.

7. Unreal Conditional describes unreal, imaginary situations

8. Imaginary Friends Monsters Bunghole made his

9. Many children invent an imaginary friend.

10. An imaginary roommate named Charles Herman.

11. 23 He was enmeshed in imaginary conversations.

12. A meridian is an imaginary circle.

13. Her world was peopled with imaginary friends.

14. My little daughter has an imaginary friend.

15. Was the temptation real or imaginary?

16. The unicorn is an imaginary beast.

17. 5 Many children invent an imaginary friend.

18. There, real and imaginary part interleave each other.

19. The characters in this book are purely imaginary.

20. Imaginary time is indistinguishable from directions in space.

21. Visualising the imaginary scene Cosmo broke into laughter.

22. She enjoys creating imaginary worlds for children.

23. His memories are peopled with imaginary creatures.

24. 4 The unicorn is an imaginary beast.

25. The story is set in an imaginary world.

26. All the characters in this book are imaginary.

27. He told a story about an imaginary land.

28. Chimerical definition, unreal; imaginary; visionary: a Chimerical terrestrial paradise

29. An Adamant is an imaginary stone of impenetrable hardness

30. We must listen to their problems, real or imaginary.

31. We play out an imaginary confrontation in our mind.

32. We've used an imaginary case history to illustrate them.

33. This imaginary infection has spread to the next floor?

34. He ran a mental finger down an imaginary list.

35. Real ethnic crimes have begun to replace imaginary ones.

36. I had an imaginary friend when I was a child.

37. As a child I had an imaginary friend called Polly.

38. Chimeric, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal, visionary

39. Discussions of imaginary Barlines tend to get very mathematical

40. Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster

41. Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster

42. Where is the imaginary sidekick, Bumbling Paul, at this moment?

43. Realizing monumental installations, imaginary Bestiaries, abstract forms or human-sized characters

44. However, the beginning in imaginary time will not be a singularity.

45. Bemuddy Next let the caramel dance! An imaginary happy ending

46. I'm sorry I won't make it to your imaginary wedding.

47. An imaginary character whose name is used as an endearment.

48. The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the earth.

49. 22 synonyms for Chimerical: chimeric, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary

50. 4 Bohr Locked away with an imaginary phial of cyanide.