adj
visionary; imaginary; lacking foundation in reality
adj
Having or revealing creative skill.
adj
(vision, of a perceived color) Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.
n
(countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
adj
Existing only in the imagination.
n
(authorship) Any resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author, director, or developer to end the story in the way that they desired.
n
A theatrical effect in which the true meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
n
The world of the dream state of consciousness taken as a reality.
n
Something produced or established as a result of someone's imagination or personal efforts.
n
(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase which it replaces.
adj
Known only in fables; fictitious.
n
Cultural beliefs that are not grounded in fact.
adj
In the form of a fable.
v
(intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
v
To compose or relate fables or fictions; to give a false account of.
adj
Similar to facts, but not necessarily factual; fact-like.
n
That which comes from one's imagination.
adj
Invented, as opposed to real.
adj
(obsolete) Addicted to or characterized by fiction.
adj
Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
n
A work of fiction featuring product placement or commissioned to promote a product.
n
A product of the imagination.
n
(countable) A nicer word used instead of a vulgar or distasteful word
n
(informal, fiction) Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties.
adj
Extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.
n
The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
adj
Existing only in the imagination.
n
Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
adj
Pertaining to, involving, or caused by imagination.
n
Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.
adj
(obsolete) imaginative
adj
fictional, made up, imaginary.
n
The style of the kitchen sink drama, depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.
n
A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.
n
(idiomatic) One who achieves great fame while alive.
adj
(slang) legendary in act or function.
adj
Appearing (solely) in legends.
n
A person who is alive and has achieved legendary status
n
The abstract quality of making believe
adj
imaginary; conjured in someone's imagination, especially when imagined by a child
n
(derogatory) Inventive, complex arguments used to justify what is otherwise unjustifiable.
adj
(literature) Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using the elaborate language devices of the heroic style.
adj
(humorous) Overly professionalist; palpably mechanical in execution.
n
(psychology) The innate, mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
n
Alternative spelling of pseudo force [Synonym of fictitious force]
adj
(figuratively) Imaginary, but presented as real.
adj
Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist.
adj
(obsolete) Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist.
adv
By means of a telesm, or magical charm.
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