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I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.
Jai Courtney

Meaning of "imaginary" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMAGINARY

imaginary  [ɪˈmædʒɪnərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMAGINARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Imaginary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IMAGINARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Imaginary

Imaginary can refer to: ▪ Imaginary, a concept in sociology ▪ The Imaginary, a concept by Jacques Lacan ▪ Imaginary number, a concept in mathematics ▪ Imaginary time, a concept in physics ▪ Imagination, a mental faculty ▪ Object of the mind, an object of the imagination ▪ Imaginary friend ▪ Imaginary Records, a record label...

Definition of imaginary in the English dictionary

The definition of imaginary in the dictionary is existing in the imagination; unreal; illusory. Other definition of imaginary is involving or containing imaginary numbers. The imaginary part of a complex number, z, is usually written Im z.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMAGINARY


binary
ˈbaɪnərɪ
chicanery
ʃɪˈkeɪnərɪ
culinary
ˈkʌlɪnərɪ
disciplinary
ˈdɪsɪˌplɪnərɪ
genitourinary
ˌdʒɛnɪtəʊˈjʊərɪnərɪ
interdisciplinary
ˌɪntəˈdɪsɪˌplɪnərɪ
joinery
ˈdʒɔɪnərɪ
luminary
ˈluːmɪnərɪ
mercenary
ˈmɜːsɪnərɪ
millinery
ˈmɪlɪnərɪ
multidisciplinary
ˌmʌltɪˈdɪsɪˌplɪnərɪ
octogenary
ɒkˈtɒdʒɪnərɪ
pinery
ˈpaɪnərɪ
preliminary
prɪˈlɪmɪnərɪ
refinery
rɪˈfaɪnərɪ
seminary
ˈsɛmɪnərɪ
sexagenary
sekˈsædʒɪnərɪ
urinary
ˈjʊərɪnərɪ
veterinary
ˈvɛtərɪnərɪ
winery
ˈwaɪnərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMAGINARY

imaginable
imaginably
imaginal
imaginarily
imaginariness
imaginary number
imaginary part
imagination
imaginational
imaginative
imaginatively
imaginativeness
imagine
imaginer
imagines
imaging
imaginings
imagism
imagist
imagistic

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMAGINARY

ambassador extraordinary
concubinary
cross-disciplinary
dictionary
duobinary
eclipsing binary
extraordinary
in ordinary
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
multitudinary
nonbinary
ordinary
out of the ordinary
quinary
sanguinary
trinary
unextraordinary
unordinary
valetudinary
vicissitudinary
X-ray binary

Synonyms and antonyms of imaginary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IMAGINARY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «imaginary» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of imaginary

Translation of «imaginary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMAGINARY

Find out the translation of imaginary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of imaginary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «imaginary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

假想的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imaginario
570 millions of speakers

English

imaginary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

काल्पनिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خَيَالِيٌّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

воображаемый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imaginário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কল্পিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imaginaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Khayalan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

imaginär
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

想像の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상상의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bayangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không có thật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கற்பனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काल्पनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayali
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

immaginario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

urojony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

уявний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

imaginar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φανταστικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

denkbeeldige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inbillad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

innbilt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of imaginary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMAGINARY»

The term «imaginary» is very widely used and occupies the 19.046 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMAGINARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «imaginary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «imaginary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about imaginary

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10 QUOTES WITH «IMAGINARY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word imaginary.
1
Paula Abdul
Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
2
Lloyd Alexander
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
3
Iyad Allawi
These are facts, these are not imaginary things.
4
Paul Auster
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
5
Adam Beach
I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
6
Omar Bongo
It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
7
Andre Breton
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
8
Terry Brooks
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.
9
Tony Buzan
Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.
10
Jai Courtney
I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMAGINARY»

Discover the use of imaginary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to imaginary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend: A Novel
Imaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagination—the perfect read for anyone who has ever had a friend . . . real or otherwise Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go.
Matthew Dicks, 2012
2
The Book Of Imaginary Beings
Few readers will want, or be able, to resist this modern bestiary. Borges' cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.
Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, Andrew Hurley, 2005
3
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of "i" [the square root of ...
This book can be read as an engaging history, almost a biography, of one of the most evasive and pervasive "numbers" in all of mathematics.
Paul J. Nahin, 2010
4
Imaginary Maps: Three Stories
Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these three stories by noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life through the figures and narratives of the indigenous tribes of India.
Mahasweta Devi, 1995
5
Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them
If you have a child who creates imaginary creatures, or if you work with pre-schoolers, you will find this book very helpful in understanding the roles that imaginary companions play in children's emotional lives.
Marjorie Taylor Professor of Psychology University of Oregon, 1999
6
The Imaginary Institution of Society
As a work of social theory, I would argue that it belongs in a class with the writings of Habermas and Arendt". -- Jay Bernstein, University of Essex This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought.
Cornelius Castoriadis, 1998
7
Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality
Imaginary Bodies is an intriguing and comprehensive investigation of the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space.
Moira Gatens, 2013
8
The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
" --American Film Employing Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.
Christian Metz, 1982
9
Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern ...
The book opens with Kearney's own "prelude" in which he traces his intellectual itinerary as it traverses the three imaginaries explored in the volume: the dialogical, the political, and the narrative.
Peter Gratton, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, 2007
10
The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology
Ranging from the Renaissance pastoral to Coleridge to Sartre and Beckett, The Fictive and the Imaginary is a distinguished work of scholarship from one of Europe's most respected and influential critics.
Wolfgang Iser, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMAGINARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term imaginary is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Twitter Bot That Generates Beautiful, Imaginary Moths
For centuries, devoted lepidopterists such as Vladimir Nabokov have painstakingly gathered and catalogued hundreds of winged arthropods, ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
2
Review: 'Imaginary Cities' by Darran Anderson - Chicago Tribune
Darran Anderson's massive work "Imaginary Cities" delves idiosyncratically into the idea of place. (Christiana Spens photo, Influx Press). «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Greece's Imaginary Numbers - Bloomberg View
Mathematicians use "imaginary numbers" for abstract concepts such as the square root of -1 (which, since you asked, has two answers: i and -i) ... «Bloomberg View, Jul 15»
4
The Imaginary Line That Separates
Sometimes a physical line separates us from another--a wall, fence, or door. However, all of those obstacles can be overcome with effort or time ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
5
Imaginary Menagerie rolls into Chippingt Norton
Roll up, roll up...and witness the extraordinary wonders of Les Enfants Terrible in their magical new stage show, the 'Marvellous Imaginary ... «Banbury Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Yeh Hai Mohabbatein: An Imaginary Disease Haunts Raman!
A silly misunderstanding seems to be haunting Raman Kumar Bhalla (Karan Patel) of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein. An allergy would have triggered ... «FilmiBeat, Jul 15»
7
A-Sides With Jon Chattman: The 'Nice Deep Musk' of Imaginary
Muse fronted by Elvis? Not quite but listen to the New York five-piece band Imaginary People and you'll hear a glorious contradiction of ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
8
Birdman and Lil Wayne Perform Pivotal Scene in Imaginary YMCMB …
No movie this summer is likely to contain half the spine-tingling, “oh s—t” suspense and excitement of this ten-second Instagram video taken ... «SPIN, Jul 15»
9
Sunday Q&A: Karlito Towns, invisible friend/imaginary voice of Karl …
Karlito Towns, the imaginary friend of Wolves rookie Karl-Anthony Towns, discusses all things about the No. 1 pick of the 2015 NBA draft. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
10
NBA rookie brings imaginary friend to Vegas for Summer League
Timberwolves rookie Karl-Anthony Towns travels with an imaginary friend. When the top overall pick in June's NBA Draft takes the floor today at ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»

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