Imaginary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Imaginary \Im*ag"i*na*ry\, a. [L. imaginarius: cf. F.
     imaginaire.]
     Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied;
     visionary; ideal.
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           Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
           Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?     --Addison.
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     {Imaginary calculus} See under {Calculus}.
  
     {Imaginary expression} or {Imaginary quantity} (Alg.), an
        algebraic expression which involves the impossible
        operation of taking the square root of a negative
        quantity; as, [root]-9, a + b [root]-1.
  
     {Imaginary points}, {lines}, {surfaces}, etc. (Geom.),
        points, lines, surfaces, etc., imagined to exist, although
        by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact
        ceased to have a real existence.
  
     Syn: Ideal; fanciful; chimerical; visionary; fancied; unreal;
          illusive.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Imaginary \Im*ag"i*na*ry\, n. (Alg.)
     An imaginary expression or quantity.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  imaginary
       adj : not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some
             fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small
             child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to
             create a notional world for oneself" [syn: {fanciful},
             {imagined}, {notional}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "imaginary":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, abstract, air-built, airy, algorismic,
     algorithmic, aliquot, apparent, apparitional, autistic, cardinal,
     chimeric, chimerical, cloud-built, deceptive, decimal, delusional,
     delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, differential, digital,
     dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, ethereal, even, exponential,
     fallacious, false, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fatuitous,
     fatuous, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, figural,
     figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, gaseous, gossamery,
     hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusional, illusionary,
     illusive, illusory, imaginational, imaginative, imagined,
     immaterial, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational,
     legendary, logarithmic, logometric, made-up, merely nominal,
     misleading, mythic, mythical, mythological, negative, nonexistent,
     not real, notional, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd,
     ordinal, ostensible, pair, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic,
     phantom, phantomlike, positive, possible, prime, quixotic, radical,
     rarefied, rational, real, reciprocal, seeming, self-deceptive,
     self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral, spirituous,
     submultiple, subtile, subtle, supposititious, surd, tenuous,
     transcendental, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unrealistic,
     unsubstantial, untrue, vaporous, visional, visionary, windy