imaginary meaning
EN
[ɪˈmadʒɪn(ə)ɹi] [ɪˈmadʒɪˌnɛɹi] 
US WImaginary
- Imaginary can refer to:
- Imaginary (sociology), a concept in sociology
- The Imaginary (psychoanalysis), a concept by Jacques Lacan
- Imaginary number, a concept in mathematics
- Imaginary time, a concept in physics
- Imagination, a mental faculty
- Object of the mind, an object of the imagination
- Imaginary friend
- Imaginary Records, a record label
- NounPLimaginariesSUF-ary
- Imagination; fancy.
- (mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
- Imagination; fancy.
- AdjectiveCOMmore imaginarySUPmost imaginary
- existing only in the imagination.
- She isn't real, she's imaginary.
- (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
- existing only in the imagination.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In Noises Off we're hurled through the first act--in three different incarnations--from an imaginary very silly, veddy British sex farce, Nothing On, that's deservedly playing the provinces.
- On Tuesday evening CNN had found two suitemates who recounted some of the most chilling details about the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, including that he had an imaginary girlfriend named Jelly.
- The poem re-enchants the bull by setting imaginary walls and thresholds around it.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of imaginary in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "imaginary" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.