Existing only in imagination or fancy; due to erroneous belief or conception; not real; baseless; fancied: opposed to actual.In mathematics, unreal and feigned in accordance with the theory of imaginary quantities.Synonyms Ideal, fanciful, fancied, visionary, unreal, shadowy, Utopian. Imaginary and imaginative are never synonymous: imaginary means existing only in the imagination; imaginative means possessed of or showing an active imagination.n. In algebra, an imaginary expression or quantity.