Another word for imaginary
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Adjective
Existing only in the imagination
- Characterized by vision or foresight.
- Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory.
- Existing in imagination only; imaginary.
- Not real or substantial; illusory.
- So remarkable as to elicit disbelief; fantastic.
- Surreal.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- Speculative or theoretical.
- Understood in terms of semantic content rather than grammatical structure. The word did is notional in We did the work and relational in We did not agree.
- Based on or existing only in fantasy; unreal:
- Strange or fanciful in form, conception, or appearance:
- Unrealistic; irrational:
- Created in the fancy; imaginary or unreal:
- Tending to indulge in fancy:
- Showing invention or whimsy in design; imaginative.
- Of or relating to concepts or mental conception:
- Of or relating to conceptualism.
- Highly improbable or illusory:
- Relating to or being an organism or substance that is a chimera:
- Relating to a monoclonal antibody produced from the cells of an organism, usually a mouse, in which the constant region has been replaced with a human sequence of amino acids. This is done in the laboratory by replacing part of the DNA sequence in the nonhuman cells of an organism with a sequence of human DNA.
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Another word for imaginary
Modifier
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- Having a lively imagination, especially a creative imagination.
- Created by, indicative of, or characterized by imagination or creativity.
- Tending to indulge in the fanciful or in make-believe.
- Playful or fanciful pretense.
- Concocted or fabricated, especially in order to deceive or mislead; make up:
- Of or relating to the characters, settings, or plots that are created for a work of fiction:
- Of, based on, or discussed in legend.
- Extremely well known; famous or renowned:
- Of, relating to, or recorded in myths or mythology.
- Fabulous; imaginary.
- Based on or existing only in fantasy; unreal:
- Strange or fanciful in form, conception, or appearance:
- Unrealistic; irrational:
- Of questionable authorship or authenticity.
- Erroneous; fictitious:
- Of or having to do with the Apocrypha.
- Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
- Lacking firmness or strength; flimsy.
- Lacking basis in fact.
- Extremely pleasing or successful:
- Barely credible; astonishing:
- Of the nature of a fable or myth; legendary.
- Characterized by, arising from, or subject to whimsy:
- Playful or fanciful, especially in a humorous way:
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- Speculative or theoretical.
- Understood in terms of semantic content rather than grammatical structure. The word did is notional in We did the work and relational in We did not agree.
- A conception of something in its absolute perfection:
- One that is regarded as a standard or model of perfection or excellence:
- An ultimate or worthy object of endeavor; a goal:
- Of or characterized by hallucination.
- Inducing hallucination.
- Conceived or envisioned in the mind.
- simple past tense and past participle of imagin
- simple past tense and past participle of imagine
- Deceiving or tending to deceive:
- Tending to delude.
- Having the nature of a delusion; false:
- Of, relating to, or based on theory.
- Restricted to theory; not practical or applied:
- Studying or working to develop theory.
- Of, relating to, or based on a hypothesis:
- Conditional; contingent:
- A hypothetical circumstance, condition, scenario, or situation:
- Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.
- Resembling a dream; ethereal or vague.
- Given to daydreams or reverie.
- Soothing and serene.
- Highly improbable or illusory:
- Full of or dark with shadow:
- Casting shadows:
- Lacking distinctness; faint:
- Characterized by vision or foresight.
- Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory.
- Existing in imagination only; imaginary.
- Not real or substantial; illusory.
- So remarkable as to elicit disbelief; fantastic.
- Surreal.
- Created in the fancy; imaginary or unreal:
- Tending to indulge in fancy:
- Showing invention or whimsy in design; imaginative.
- Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive:
- imaginary; imagined
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