Imaginary - English meaning

verb

Make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients.

Usage examples:

She began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him

verb

Past simple and past participle of concoct

Usage examples:

He concocted the most amazing dish from all sorts of leftover food., he concocted a story about wor…

phrasal verb

To invent something new by using a lot of imagination

Usage examples:

The gerbils is an odd name for a baseball team – who dreamed it up?

verb

Invent (something) in order to deceive.

Usage examples:

Officers fabricated evidence

verb

Feel a desire or liking for.

Usage examples:

Do you fancy a drink?

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

adjective

(of a drawing, painting, or sculpture) created from the imagination rather than from life.

Usage examples:

I used to take a seat and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes

adjective

Over-imaginative and unrealistic.

Usage examples:

Ever more fanciful proposals were raised

adjective

Extraordinarily good or attractive.

Usage examples:

They did a fantastic job

adjective

Relating to or occurring in fiction; invented for the purposes of fiction.

Usage examples:

Fictional texts

adjective

Imaginary

Usage examples:

A fictional story, fictional characters

adjective

Not real or true; imaginary or fabricated.

Usage examples:

Reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the minister

adjective

Invented and not true or existing; false

Usage examples:

He registered at the hotel under a fictitious name.

adjective

Not real

Usage examples:

Executives invented fictitious sales to justify amounts transferred offshore., many of the internet…

prefix

Variant spelling of in-1, in-2 assimilated before l (as in illustrate, illuminate ).

suffix

Forming adjectives and nouns such as civil and fossil.

abbreviation

Illinois (in official postal use).

adjective

Based on illusion; not real.

Usage examples:

She knew the safety of her room was illusory

adjective

Not real and based on illusion

Usage examples:

Their hopes of a peaceful solution turned out to be illusory.

verb

Create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of.

Usage examples:

He invented an improved form of the steam engine

adjective

Described in or based on legends.

Usage examples:

A legendary british king of the 4th century

adjective

Wearing esp. a lot of makeup

Usage examples:

She was heavily made-up and wearing a wig., a made-up name, they complained about "made-up" data.

idiom

Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

noun

The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.

Usage examples:

She's living in a world of make-believe

adjective

Imitating something real.

Usage examples:

He was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes

adjective

Occurring in or characteristic of myths or folk tales.

Usage examples:

One of denmark's greatest mythical heroes

adjective

Mythical also means imaginary or not real

Usage examples:

I’d like to see that mythical girlfriend he’s always talking about.

adjective

Relating to, based on, or appearing in myths or mythology.

Usage examples:

The tree of life is one of the oldest of all mythological symbols

adjective

Something that is non-existent does not exist or is not present in a particular place

Usage examples:

Insurance payment for alternative healthcare is virtually non-existent.

verb

Behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.

Usage examples:

I closed my eyes and pretended i was asleep

adjective

Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary.

Usage examples:

The children poured out pretend tea for the dolls

verb

To behave as if something is true when you know that it is not, esp. in order to deceive people or as a game

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] tom pretends to care., [ + (that) clause ] the children pretended (that) they w…

noun

A book containing a story or collection of stories intended for children.

Usage examples:

The saga of tiny things abounds in children's rhymes, songs, storybooks and protected collections.

adjective

Imaginary or illusory.

Usage examples:

In the half-light the tiny cottages seemed unreal

adjective

As if imagined; strange and like a dream

Usage examples:

His face was an eerie, unreal color., we just ate and ate, and i was so full it was unreal.