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

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1. imaginary

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

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

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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

   Synonyms:
   complex quantity, complex number, imaginary number

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

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"

   Synonyms:
   conceptional, ideational, speculative, notional, fanciful

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

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1. 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  

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1. imaginaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   visionary, ideal, fancied, fanciful, chimerical, dreamy, unreal, shadowy, wild, quixotic, utopian

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1. imaginaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   fancied, visionary, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal

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1. List of paraphrases for "imaginary":

   imagination, fantasy, illusory, fictitious, imagined, mock, fictional, delusional, make-believe, imaginative, fallacious, illusive, fake, hypothetical

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1. President Barack Obama:

   I'm happy to talk to them, but the conversation has to be based on facts and truth, and what we're actually proposing, not some ... imaginary fiction in which 'Obama's trying to take away your guns,'.

2. 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.

3. Karl Marx:

   As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

4. Don Lemon:

   Lets talk about his imaginary Latin-American migrant conspiracy, this is part of a long history of him making things up about the caravan and the border crisis.

5. Edgar Watson Howe:

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