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Synonyms for imaginary
ɪˈmædʒ əˌnɛr iimag·i·na·ry
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
imaginary
Synonyms:
conceived, fabulous, fanciful, feigned, fictitious, hypothetical, illusory, reported, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, unreal, untrue, visionaryAntonyms:
actual, authentic, certain, demonstrable, developed, essential, genuine, positive, real, substantial, true, unquestionable, veritable
Princeton's WordNet
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
Synonyms:
complex quantity, complex number, imaginary numberfanciful, 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"
Synonyms:
conceptional, ideational, speculative, notional, fanciful
Editors Contribution
nefelibata
related to imagine is a word that describes creativity in the mind. imaginary is the creative thinking is the brain that makes you think of fictional characters or nouns.
Submitted by rinat on September 9, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
imaginaryadjective
Synonyms:
fancied, visionary, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "imaginary":
imagination, fantasy, illusory, fictitious, imagined, mock, fictional, delusional, make-believe, imaginative, fallacious, illusive, fake, hypothetical
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#1550 | reported | |
#1996 | fantasy | |
#4689 | supposed | |
#6019 | theoretical | |
#6134 | fake | |
#7915 | fabulous | |
#7999 | imagination | |
#9438 | hypothetical | |
#13230 | unreal | |
#13413 | mock | |
#14325 | conceived | |
#14923 | imagined | |
#15937 | imaginary | |
#18142 | fictional | |
#19460 | imaginative | |
#19590 | visionary | |
#20140 | speculative | |
#27219 | fictitious | |
#30218 | untrue | |
#39207 | notional | |
#44241 | fanciful | |
#46105 | delusional | |
#52075 | illusory | |
#74880 | fallacious | |
#77722 | feigned | |
#93946 | illusive | |
#202594 | ideational | |
#327192 | conceptional |
How to use imaginary in a sentence?
Theyre not imaginary, theyre real ... to have the chair of the Judiciary Committee, on the House floor, say ... these words ...imaginary things like Antifa. They are far from imaginary. And there are people in every major city in this country whoknow that and yet the chair of the Judiciary Committee just made that statement. That is scary.
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
I feel something different. The Chinese are trying to choke us by putting an imaginary checkpoint there. It is a clear violation of our right to travel, impeding freedom of navigation.
Treating China as a strategic rival and imaginary enemy would be a huge strategic misjudgement.
Translations for imaginary
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- denkbeeldig, imaginêrAfrikaans
- خياليArabic
- কাল্পনিকBengali
- imaginariCatalan, Valencian
- pomyslný, imaginárníCzech
- imaginær, fantasi-Danish
- eingebildet, imaginärGerman
- φανταστικόςGreek
- imaginarioSpanish
- imaginaari-, kuvitteellinen, imaginaarinenFinnish
- imaginaireFrench
- samhlaithe, samhlaitheach, samhailteachIrish
- mac-meanmnachScottish Gaelic
- imaxinarioGalician
- imaginárius, képzetes, képzeletbeliHungarian
- երեւակայականArmenian
- imajiner, khayal, khayalanIndonesian
- fiktiva, imaginita, imaginalaIdo
- immaginarioItalian
- ដែលមានតែក្នុងមនោគតិKhmer
- phantasticus, imaginariusLatin
- iedomāts, imaginārsLatvian
- काल्पनिकMarathi
- denkbeeldig, imaginairDutch
- innbiltNorwegian
- urojona, zmyślonyPolish
- imaginárioPortuguese
- imaginarRomanian
- воображаемый, вымышленный, мнимыйRussian
- imaginärSwedish
- -a kubuniSwahili
- sanalTurkish
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