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imaginal

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of imaginal

graphic (also graphical), pictorial, visual

Words Related to imaginal

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 of imaginal

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

Words Related to imaginal

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 of imaginal

authentic, genuine, true

factual, verifiable, verified

believable, convincing, realistic

corporeal, material, physical, solid, substantial

palpable, tangible

Antonyms of imaginal

actual, existent, existing, real

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