imaginary

i·mag·i·nar·y  (-mj-nr)

adj.

1. Having existence only in the imagination; unreal.

2. Mathematics

a. Of or being the coefficient of the imaginary unit in a complex number.

b. Of, involving, or being an imaginary number.

c. Involving only a complex number of which the real part is zero.

n. pl. i·mag·i·nar·ies Mathematics

An imaginary number.

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i·magi·nari·ly adv.

i·magi·nari·ness n.

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imaginary

Adjective

1. existing only in the imagination

2. Maths relating to the square root of a negative number

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	imaginary - (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement number - a concept of quantity involving zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence" complex conjugate - either of two complex numbers whose real parts are identical and whose imaginary parts differ only in sign real, real number - any rational or irrational number pure imaginary number - an imaginary number of the form a+bi where a is 0 imaginary part, imaginary part of a complex number - the part of a complex number that has the square root of -1 as a factor
Adj.	1.	imaginary - not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself" notional, fanciful unreal - lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"

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imaginary

adjective fictional, made-up, invented, supposed, imagined, assumed, ideal, fancied, legendary, visionary, shadowy, unreal, hypothetical, fanciful, fictitious, mythological, illusory, nonexistent, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusive, chimerical, unsubstantial, phantasmal, suppositious, imagal Psychoanalysis << OPPOSITE real

Translations

imaginary [ɪˈmædʒɪnərɪ] adj → imaginario

imaginary [ɪˈmædʒɪnərɪ] adj → imaginaire

imaginary [ɪˈmædʒɪnərɪ] adj → erfunden;

(being) → Fantasie-;

(danger) → eingebildet

imaginary [ɪˈmædʒɪnərɪ] adj → immaginario/a