notionalformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

imaginary
imaginaryOur daughter had an imaginary friend when she was six.
made-upThe comedian started with some obviously made-up stories about hanging out with the Queen.
make-believeSome politicians seem to live in a make-believe world where everything revolves around their interests.
non-existentThese accounts are used to sell fake or non-existent goods.
fantasticHer books were filled with magicians and fantastic creatures.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

True, real, false, and unreal
actual
actuality
actually
all that glitters is not goldidiom
alternate reality
false
false flag
falsely
fantastical
fever dream
not so muchidiom
nothing could be further from the truthidiom
nothing could have been further from my mind/thoughtsidiom
parallel universe
post-factual
unreal
untrue
untruly
unverifiable
urban myth

imaginary | American Dictionary

imaginary
adjective
us/ɪˈmædʒ·əˌner·i/
existing only in the mind; not real:
All her worries were imaginary.

Examples of imaginary

imaginary
A purely imaginary constant could be added on the right here, but it can be assumed to vanish.
It is tempting to try to compare this volume to an imaginary book which it doesn't try to be.
For the objects they take to be real beings are in fact imaginary, not real.
The real part of k gives the wave number of the oscillations and the imaginary part determines 2 the spatial growth of the amplitude.
But if the object is just a hallucination, its ontological status will be that of an imaginary object.
This is equivalent to creating an imaginary sphere around each singular point which the measurement points cannot move into during optimisation.
Conjectures 2.12 and 2.13 are related to elimination of imaginaries as studied in model theory.
These changes and control of space echoed the state endeavour to create anew the social imaginary that symbolized a more "civilized" future with economic success.
Unlike many other travel works of his day, however, he did not back-date these letters or devise a fictive dialogue with an imaginary correspondent.
In this imaginary situation, you could eventually come to think that you were somehow causing the movement.
The meromorphy bar s the existence of certain configurations, while other s are explained by assuming imaginary residues.
Even so, we may see in the nineteenth century, in differing forms and situations, concerns that still dominate the cultural imaginary.
Designing only imaginary projects can over-intellectualize the design process and distance a designer from architectural issues which affect people's real lives.
The stimulus patches were sectors of an imaginary annulus centered on the fixation point.
The interpretation is also imaginary for all spaces embedded in counterfactual or other distanced spaces.
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