imaginal

imaginal

adjective

Definition of IMAGINAL

1

consisting of or relating to pictures <after a desensitizing series of imaginal exposures to the feared object, the phobic person is then exposed to the actual object>

Synonyms graphic (also graphical), imaginal, visual

Related Words photographic, video; drawn, painted, represented; illustrational, illustrative; hieroglyphic (also hieroglyphical), iconographic (or iconographical), ideogramic (or ideogrammic), ideogrammatic, ideographic, pictographic

2

not real and existing only in the imagination <the equator is merely an imaginal line>

Synonyms chimerical (also chimeric), fabulous, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic (also fantastical), fictional, fictitious, ideal, imaginal, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, mythical (or mythic), notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, pretend, unreal, visonary

Related Words fabled, legendary, romantic; abstract, hypothetical, theoretical (also theoretic); unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely; conceived, envisaged, envisioned, pictured, visualized; daydreamlike, deceptive, delusional, delusive, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric (or phantasmagorical); concocted, fabricated, feigned, fictive; inexistent, nonexistent

Near Antonyms authentic, genuine, true; factual, verifiable, verified; believable, convincing, realistic; corporeal, material, physical, solid, substantial; palpable, tangible

Antonyms actual, existent, existing, real