imaginary |
1. adj. Existing only in the imagination. | |
Santa Claus is imaginary. | |
2. adj. (mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1. | |
3. n. Imagination; fancy. | |
4. n. (mathematics) An imaginary quantity. | |
5. n. (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. | |
fanciful |
1. adj. Imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined. | |