imaginary
adjective
[ ɪˈmadʒɪn(ə)ri ]
• existing only in the imagination.
• "Chris had imaginary conversations with her"
Similar:
unreal,
non-existent,
fictional,
fictitious,
pretend,
make-believe,
mythical,
mythological,
legendary,
storybook,
fanciful,
fantastic,
made-up,
dreamed-up,
invented,
concocted,
fabricated,
fancied,
illusory,
illusive,
figmental,
hallucinatory,
phantasmal,
phantasmic,
dreamy,
dreamlike,
shadowy,
unsubstantial,
chimerical,
ethereal,
virtual,
notional,
hypothetical,
theoretical,
assumed,
supposed,
suppositious,
visionary,
• (of a number or quantity) expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number (usually the square root of −1, represented by i or j ).
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin imaginarius, from imago, imagin- ‘image’.
