imaginary
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3.2
- adjective
- /ɪˈmædʒɪˌnɛri/
:
imaginario
- I know on paper, imaginary, it's worth more.
- an imaginary friend
- an imaginary world
- an imaginary line
Now I'm looking at an imaginary crystal ball.
- Now I'm looking at an imaginary crystal ball.
- Turns out the NFTS and the bitcoins are imaginary.
- Prime Meridian, the imaginary vertical line running from north to South Pole.
- The spin is in a in an imaginary magnetic field, in which case the alphas would change with time.
- I know on paper, imaginary, it's worth more.
- Yeah, let's talk about mission vision, you know, imaginary thinking, you know, greens talk about how is this supposed to be done?
Examples
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Of course, like all kids, I had imaginary friends, but not just one.
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Is it just imaginary or is it perhaps possible?
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And... the... women he had imaginary relationships with.
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Lots of people have imaginary friends as children.
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Has your imaginary friend come out to play, huh?
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Well, it's not unusual to have imaginary friends at this age.
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In social studies, students can maintain imaginary journals as if they were particular individuals from history.
Academic text (1991) -
I know that lots of kids have imaginary friends, but eventually they outgrow them.
Fiction book (1991) -
I haven't spoken to my imaginary friend since I was a child.
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Many children create imaginary friends to play with when they are feeling lonely.
Synonyms
106
3.4
Made up in stories or in your mind, not real
31
5.1
Not real and made up
28
4.2
Not real, like something from a dream
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4.9
Not real and used in play
12
7.0
Seeming to be real but not really there
12
6.0
Imaginative but not true or practical
3
7.5
Existing only in the mind and not real
Not real and only imagined in the mind, often used in grammar for events that did not happen
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.9
A number in the form a plus b i, where i is the square root of minus one
- Specialized
The number you multiply by i in a complex number, for example 3 in 5 + 3i
- Specialized
A number equal to a real number not zero times i with no real part
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imaginary comes from a Latin root that means 'image' and is the same root as image and imagine, so an imaginary thing is like an 'image' in your mind rather than something real.