imaginary
Collocations
2(adj.)
VERBS
be
ADV
completely, purely, wholly
My friend's excuse for being late was completely imaginary, and nobody believed him.
Definitions
adj
Existing only in the imagination.
imaginary friend
Unicorns are imaginary.
Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).
Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).
noun
Imagination; fancy.
By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
An imaginary number.
The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
The sensory media are sensuous materials which prolong our bodily life into the surrounding world, and hence the media are imaginaries. These perceptually penetrated materials are " imaginaries " because they operate here in our living body […].
For example, colonial motifs of many kinds became increasingly central to the British national imaginary from the mid-nineteenth century, while the imaginative significance of 'the soldier' has long been derived from, and helped to sustain, the linkage between national and military imaginaries.
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WiktionaryUnicorns are imaginary.
WiktionaryWilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
WiktionaryBy then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humou
WiktionaryThe sensory media are sensuous materials which prolong our bodily life into the surrounding world, and hence the media are imaginaries. These perceptually penetrated materials are " imaginaries " beca
WiktionaryFor example, colonial motifs of many kinds became increasingly central to the British national imaginary from the mid-nineteenth century, while the imaginative significance of 'the soldier' has long b
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