Usually means: Not real, existing in mind.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word imaginary:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. imaginary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. imaginary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imaginary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imaginary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imaginary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imaginary, imaginary: Wordnik
  7. imaginary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imaginary: Wiktionary
  9. imaginary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imaginary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imaginary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. imaginary: Dictionary.com
  13. imaginary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Imaginary (Sociology), Imaginary (sociology), Imaginary, The Imaginary (Asimov), The Imaginary (Sartre), The Imaginary (disambiguation), The Imaginary (novel), The Imaginary (psychoanalysis): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Imaginary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. imaginary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. imaginary: Rhymezone
  18. Imaginary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. imaginary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. imaginary: Free Dictionary
  21. imaginary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. imaginary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. imaginary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imaginary (disambiguation), imaginary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imaginary (disambiguation), imaginary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. imaginary: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  2. imaginary, imaginary: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imaginary: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See imaginarily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Existing only in the imagination.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).
noun:  Imagination; fancy.
noun:  (mathematics, countable) An imaginary number.
noun:  (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.

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