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
Nonexistent is a synonym for imaginary in fictional topic. In some cases you can use "Nonexistent" instead an adjective "Imaginary", when it comes to topics like fictitious.
Nearby Words: imagination, imaginative
Nonexistent
Nonexistent adjective - Not present or in evidence.
Imaginary is a synonym for nonexistent in fictional topic. You can use "Imaginary" instead an adjective "Nonexistent".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- fanciful and imaginary
- fanciful and nonexistent
- shadowy and imaginary
- shadowy and nonexistent
- hypothetical and imaginary
- hypothetical and nonexistent
- insubstantial and imaginary
- insubstantial and nonexistent
- unsubstantial and imaginary
- unsubstantial and nonexistent
- fantastic and imaginary
- fantastic and nonexistent
- visionary and imaginary
- visionary and nonexistent
Both words in one sentence
- In 2015, someone created a PV for a nonexistent spinoff of A Certain Magical Index starring Accelerator's Gender Flip counterpart Yuriko Suzushina, who doesn't actually exist in-universe and is just an imaginary character.
Source: April Fools' Day -
A Perfect Vacuum (a book of reviews of nonexistent books) contains a review of Les Robinsonades, a retelling of Robinson Crusoe's tale where he makes up several imaginary friends out of desire for company, and things end up spiralling out of control.
Source: Robinsonade -
This is circumvented on occasion when guards decide to do target practice by shooting at the space which "just happened to be occupied by us nonexistent people", and when Grainger tells a captive he can pass the time by talking to his "imaginary" guard.
Source: Un-Person
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