English adjective: imaginary | |||
1. | imaginary not based on fact; unreal | ||
Samples | The falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties. A small child's imaginary friends. To create a notional world for oneself. | ||
Synonyms | fanciful, notional | ||
Similar | unreal | ||
Antonyms | real, existent | ||
English noun: imaginary | |||
1. | imaginary (quantity) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | ||
Synonyms | complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number | ||
Broader (hypernym) | number | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | complex conjugate, pure imaginary number, real, real number | ||
Part holonym | imaginary part, imaginary part of a complex number | ||
Domain category | math, mathematics, maths | ||