EGAVE

imaginary

About 7.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Existing only in the imagination.
    imaginary friend
  2. adjective Relating or belonging to the imagination.
  3. adjective Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of −1 (called imaginary unit).
  4. noun Imagination; fancy. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  5. noun An imaginary number.
  6. noun 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.

Similar words

imagined notional fanciful unreal fantasy imagination imaginative fabled fictional commentitious

Often followed by

part line and parts world or axis lines conversations

Word family

imaginarily imaginariness imaginarinesses

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