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Meaning of imaginary

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

imaginary

Pronunciation:/ɪˈmædʒɪn(ə)ɹi//ɪˈmædʒɪˌnɛɹi/

noun

Definitions

  1. Imagination; fancy.

  2. An imaginary quantity.

  3. The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Existing only in the imagination.

    Example: Santa Claus is imaginary.

  2. (of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.