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imaginary

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 existing only in the imagination 2 (context mathematics English) of a number, having no real number part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1. n. 1 imagination; fancy. (from 16th c.) 2 (context mathematics English) ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Imaginary can refer to: Imaginary (sociology) , a concept in sociology The Imaginary (psychoanalysis) , a concept by Jacques Lacan Imaginary number , a concept in mathematics Imaginary time , a concept in physics Imagination , a mental faculty Object of ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imaginary \Im*ag"i*na*ry\, a. [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. Imaginary calculus See ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"not real," late 14c., ymaginaire , from imagine + -ary ; or else from Late Latin imaginarius "seeming, fancied," from imaginari . Imaginary friend (one who does not exist) attested by 1789.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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 ]

Usage examples of imaginary.

The core is placed upon the end of the ridge abutting upon the inside of the loop, and so the imaginary line crosses no looping ridge, which is necessary.

Enif, Alnath, and Merak to lead ver all the way around the imaginary ship, pointing out hundreds of tiny changes in the sky and explaining what they meant, stopping now and then to show ver off to their friends.

But on certain nights, following fierce committee meetings at the Amalgamated Education Corporation, I must calm down by closing my eyes and reading the imaginary paper in imaginary Portuguese at length.

He said that men cured in this way, and enabled to discard the grape system, never afterward got over the habit of talking as if they were dictating to a slow amanuensis, because they always made a pause between each two words while they sucked the substance out of an imaginary grape.

I invented on the spot three purely imaginary stories, making a great display of tender sentiments and of ardent love, but without alluding to amorous enjoyment, particularly when she seemed to expect me to do so.

Now this simple attitude entails a number of dangerous consequences: first, an inclination to seek out some cheap form of archaism or some imaginary past forms of happiness that people did not, in fact, have at all.

Because the New England Dog Training Club meets in the Cambridge Armory on Thursday nights, it is especially important to point out that the characters and the dog training club in this novel are imaginary.

The marble Venus which Malipieri saw with it is imaginary, but I was also taken to see the beautiful statue of Augustus, now in the Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican, on the spot where it came to light in the Villa of Livia, in 1863.

Nancy stubbed out his cigarillo, then he flicked an imaginary speck of ash off his yellow gloves.

He anticipated the unbought cittern next, but instead there came again that deep throbbing, the turntable of the imaginary gramophone let run down.

But the imaginary bliss I had enjoyed had so taken my fancy that I could not rest till I realized it.

He should not begin to work wonders from His early years: for men would have deemed the Incarnation to be imaginary and would have crucified Him before the proper time.

Parnell and spread them among three imaginary characters: Christina MacCarthy, Dacre, and Murdoch Lynch.

The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints.

The bewailings of scaramouch, the dull and spiritless despair of Fastidio, offered a picture which would have made me laugh heartily if the danger had been imaginary and not real.