Imaginary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having existence only in the imagination; unreal.
  • adj. Mathematics Of or being the coefficient of the imaginary unit in a complex number.
  • adj. Mathematics Of, involving, or being an imaginary number.
  • adj. Mathematics Involving only a complex number of which the real part is zero.
  • n. Mathematics An imaginary number.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. existing only in the imagination
  • adj. of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
  • n. An imaginary expression or quantity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not based on fact; unreal
  • n. (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    actual   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    visionary    unreal    fancied    illusive    chimerical    ideal    fanciful    fancy    invented    fictitious   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    only    invisible    innumerable    earthly    mysterious    spiritual