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Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. "Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?" (Addison)
<mathematics> Imaginary expression or quantity, points, lines, surfaces, etc, imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence.
Synonyms: Ideal, fanciful, chimerical, visionary, fancied, unreal, illusive.
Origin: L. Imaginarius: cf. F. Imaginaire.
(01 Mar 1998)
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