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. 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.

2. Eugenio Bito-onon Jr:

   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.

3. 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."

4. Judge Thomas M. Goethals:

   In this case, the District Attorney's conflict of interest is not imaginary. It apparently stems from his loyalty to his law enforcement partners at the expense of his other constitutional and statutory obligations.

5. Mickey Dolenz:

   My feeling at the time is when Micky Dolenz today .’re that successful, Micky Dolenz today . really do n’t give a s --- what people say, frankly, but the people I cared about got it. They got what it was. It was not trying to cash in on The Beatles. It was a television show. The Monkees in 1997. ( Reuters) The Monkees was not a group or a band, it was a TV show about a band. And it was about this imaginary band that lived in this beach house … that wanted to be The Beatles.