Definitions for: 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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 under Calculus.

Imaginary expression or 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.

Im*ag"i*na*ry, n. (Alg.)
An imaginary expression or quantity.

Synonyms: fanciful, imagined, notional, unreal

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