Imaginary
Imaginary adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.
Usage example: told by the psychologist that it was perfectly normal for their child to have an imaginary friend
Illusory is a synonym for imaginary in ideal topic. In some cases you can use "Illusory" instead an adjective "Imaginary", when it comes to topics like vision, fictional, fictitious, phantasmal. popular alternative
Nearby Words: imagination, imaginative
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- ideal and imaginary
- ideal and illusory
- fanciful and imaginary
- fanciful and illusory
- hypothetical and imaginary
- hypothetical and illusory
- false and imaginary
- false and illusory
- deceptive and imaginary
- deceptive and illusory
- fantastic and imaginary
- fantastic and illusory
- visionary and imaginary
- visionary and illusory
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