Imaginary
Imaginary adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.
Made up and imaginary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Made up" instead an adjective "Imaginary".
Nearby Words: imagination, imaginative
Made up
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- make-believe and imaginary
- make-believe and made up
- fanciful and imaginary
- fanciful and made up
- false and imaginary
- false and made up
- spurious and imaginary
- spurious and made up
- assumed and imaginary
- assumed and made up
- pretend and imaginary
- pretend and made up
- untrue and imaginary
- untrue and made up
Both terms in one sentence
- To glue the new enemy to the old one, Nazi propaganda made up Josef Stalin's imaginary 3rd wife — "Rosa Kaganovich".
Source: Believing Their Own Lies -
Imaginary Friend: One could make an argument that the recurring characters are actually made up by the leads of each film.
- Talking to Themself: Well, writing to himself, if you go by the theory that Sabine was never real, and was just an imaginary friend Griffin made up.
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