Synonyms for imaginary
- adjective
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All synonyms
Adjective
fictitious, notional, fanciful, unreal, fictional, fantastical, ideal, chimerical, abstract, illusive, conceptual, shadowy, dreamy, quixotic, visionary, fantastic, fancied, fabulous, phantasmal, illusory, spectral, romantic dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Existing only in the imagination.
Related words
Example sentences
- unreal I find the concept of Globish restrictive and unreal.
- fictitious All the characters in this drama are fictitious.
- fanciful His ideas are often fanciful, but they're always original.
- notional The contract assigned a notional value to the shares.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| imaginary | rising | |
| unreal | steady | |
| fictitious | steady | |
| fanciful | steady | |
| notional | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- ideal2
- 6 letters
- unreal2, dreamy2
- 7 letters
- shadowy3, fancied2
- 8 letters
- romantic3, abstract2, fabulous3, spectral2, fanciful3, illusory4, notional3, illusive3, quixotic3
- 9 letters
- fantastic3, fictional3, visionary4
- 10 letters
- conceptual4, fictitious3, chimerical4, phantasmal
- 11 letters
- fantastical
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ideal2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- imaginaire
- Italiano
- immaginario
- Español
- imaginario
- Deutsch
- imaginär
- Català
- imaginari