Imaginary
[ɪ'mædʒɪn(ə)rɪ] or [ɪ'mædʒɪnɛri]
Definition
(a.) Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
(n.) An imaginary expression or quantity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Visionary, ideal, fancied, fanciful, chimerical, dreamy, unreal, shadowy, wild, Quixotic, Utopian.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See IMAGE_and_ILLUSIVE]
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Examples
- This standard is plainly imaginary. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They gain an imaginary distinctness when embodied in a State or in a system of philosophy, but they still remain the visions of 'a world unrealized. Plato. The Republic.
- He made a little gesture as though he kissed the hem of an imaginary garment worn by the noble youth before him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In the morning he said that they were on the way from some imaginary place, and would arrive in the course of the day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The subjective relation between them further suggested an objective one; although the passage from one to the other is really imaginary (Metaph. Plato. The Republic.
- If these feelings had not found an imaginary gratification, the appearance of the city had yet in itself sufficient beauty to obtain our admiration. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Everything postponed to that imaginary time! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The distance is quite imaginary. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Over the house itself, he exercised the same imaginary power as over its inhabitants and their affairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Thy _Ingl閟_-- and she shouted a flood of obscenity about Jordan's imaginary actions under the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But, though this might be imaginary, she could not be deceived as to his behaviour to Miss Darcy, who had been set up as a rival to Jane. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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