Antonyms for imaginary
ɪˈmædʒ əˌnɛr iimag·i·na·ry

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1. imaginary

   Antonyms:
   actual, authentic, certain, demonstrable, developed, essential, genuine, positive, real, substantial, true, unquestionable, veritable

   Synonyms:
   conceived, fabulous, fanciful, feigned, fictitious, hypothetical, illusory, reported, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, unreal, untrue, visionary

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1. complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number, imaginaryadjective

   (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

   Synonyms:
   complex quantity, complex number, imaginary number

2. fanciful, imaginary, notionaladjective

   not based on fact; unreal

   "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   Synonyms:
   conceptional, ideational, speculative, notional, fanciful

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1. imaginaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   fancied, visionary, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal

How to use imaginary in a sentence?

1. Richard Malka:

   This decision enshrines the freedom to criticise and enshrines the fact that his grievances were imaginary and unfounded.

2. Edgar Watson Howe:

   Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

3. Jerry Nadler:

   Article 3 of Nixon's impeachment was obstruction of Congress, refusing to obey defined congressional subpoenas, pleading imaginary privilege, and obviously that's what The President has been doing. Richard Nixon wasn't foolish to say in advance that Richard Nixon's going to defy all congressional subpoenas... and today we saw a witness instructed by the White House completely contemptuous of Congress who refused to answer relevant questions. Just another instance of obstruction of Congress and that's what Article 3 of the Richard Nixon impeachment was.

4. Thomas Szasz:

   Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

5. Macduff:

   Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."

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