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Webster 1913 Edition
Imaginary
Im-ag′i-na-ry
,Adj.
[L.
imaginarius
: cf. F. imaginaire
.] Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary
ills and fancied tortures? Addison.
Syn. – Ideal; fanciful; chimerical; visionary; fancied; unreal; illusive.
Im-ag′i-na-ry
,Noun.
(Alg.)
An imaginary expression or quantity.
Webster 1828 Edition
Imaginary
IMAG'INARY
,Adj.
Imaginary ills and fancied tortures.
Definition 2024
imaginary
imaginary
English
Adjective
imaginary (comparative more imaginary, superlative most imaginary)
- existing only in the imagination.
- She isn't real, she's imaginary.
- Addison
- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
- (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
Derived terms
Translations
existing in imagination
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non-real part of a complex number
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Noun
imaginary (plural imaginaries)
- Imagination; fancy. [from 16th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 324:
- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 324:
- (mathematics) An imaginary quantity. [from 18th c.]