What does imaginary mean?

Definitions for imaginary
ɪˈmædʒ əˌnɛr iimag·i·na·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number, imaginaryadjective

    (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1

  2. fanciful, imaginary, notionaladjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. imaginarynoun

    Imagination; fancy.

  2. imaginarynoun

    An imaginary quantity.

  3. imaginaryadjective

    existing only in the imagination

  4. imaginaryadjective

    of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.

  5. Etymology: From imaginarius, from imago.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Imaginaryadjective

    Etymology: imaginaire, French, from imagine.

    False sorrow's eye,
    Which, for things true, weeps things imaginary. William Shakespeare.

    Expectation whirls me round:
    Th' imaginary relish is so sweet,
    That it enchants my sense. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.

    Fortune is nothing else but a power imaginary, to which the successes of human actions and endeavours were for their variety ascribed. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

    Why wilt thou add, to all the griefs I suffer,
    Imaginary ills and fancied tortures? Joseph Addison, Cato.

ChatGPT

  1. imaginary

    Imaginary refers to something that is not real or present, but produced by the mind, fantasy, or exists only in theory, not in reality. It's often used in the context of math and physics where an imaginary number is a complex number that can be written as a real number multiplied by the imaginary unit 'i', which is defined by its property 'i' squared equals to -1.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Imaginaryadjective

    existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal

  2. Imaginarynoun

    an imaginary expression or quantity

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of imaginary in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of imaginary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of imaginary in a Sentence

  1. Mariana Fulger:

    They haven’t written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a large number of what is written is largely based on the conventional and the imaginary.

  2. Paul Klee:

    In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  3. Henry Louis Mencken:

    The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  4. Mariana Fulger:

    Life – a sort of a plate of real-imaginary from which I nibble together with the birds of light and darkness, with the poor and well-to-do of the world at grains of to be once rough (like sharp stones), other times more like the pulp of pomegranates and ripe figs; stairs I have to climb in myself and climb down… to sometimes walk along the roads of infinity, other times, how many, to stop before the first step, waiting for the path home…

  5. H. L. Mencken:

    The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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