Entry Word: imaginary

Function: adjective

Meaning: not real and existing only in the imagination <his imaginary friend had purple hair>

Synonyms chimerical, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, mythical (or mythic), phantasmal, phantom, pretend, unreal

Related Words fabled, legendary, romantic; abstract, hypothetical, theoretical (also theoretic); unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely; conceived, envisaged, pictured, visualized; deceptive, delusional, delusive, hallucinatory, illusory; concocted, fabricated

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

Antonyms actual, existent, existing, real