- existing only in your mind or imagination
- The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the earth.
- I had an imaginary friend when I was a child.
- As children they invented the imaginary world of Gondal.
- We must listen to their problems, real or imaginary.
Extra Examples- a largely imaginary threat
- The story is wholly imaginary.
- Children experience a lot of imaginary fears at this age.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- completely
- entirely
- purely
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin imaginarius, from imago, imagin- ‘image’.Definitions on the go
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