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

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.5 / 2 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Imaginaryadjective

   Etymology: imaginaire, French, from imagine.

   1. Fancied; visionary; existing only in the imagination.

   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.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. Imaginaryadjective

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

2. Imaginarynoun

   an imaginary expression or quantity

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1. Imaginary

   Imaginative vs. Imaginary -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Imaginative and Imaginary.

How to pronounce imaginary?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say imaginary in sign language?

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:

   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…

2. Mickey Dolenz:

   My feeling at the time is when Micky Dolenz today .’re that successful, Micky Dolenz today . really do n’t give a s --- what people say, frankly, but the people I cared about got it. They got what it was. It was not trying to cash in on The Beatles. It was a television show. The Monkees in 1997. ( Reuters) The Monkees was not a group or a band, it was a TV show about a band. And it was about this imaginary band that lived in this beach house … that wanted to be The Beatles.

3. H.L. Mencken:

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

4. Georges Bataille:

   Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

5. Eugenio Bito-onon Jr:

   I feel something different. The Chinese are trying to choke us by putting an imaginary checkpoint there. It is a clear violation of our right to travel, impeding freedom of navigation.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=imaginary
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Imaginary
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=imaginary
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imaginary