English-Thai Dictionary

imaginary

ADJ ซึ่ง สมมุติ ขึ้น  ซึ่ง ไม่มี อยู่ จริง  fanciful unreal sueng-som-mud-kuan

 

imaginary number

N จำนวนจินตภาพ  จำนวนเชิงซ้อน  imaginary jam-nuan-jin-ta-pab

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMAGINARY

a.Existing only in imagination or fancy; visionary; fancied; not real. Imaginary ills and fancied tortures.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IMAGINARY

Im *ag "i *na *ry, a. Etym: [L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire. ]

 

Defn: Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity (Alg. ), an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking the square root of a negative quantity; as, sq. root-9, a + b sq. root-1. -- Imaginary points, lines, surfaces, etc. (Geom.), points, lines, surfaces, etc. , imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence.

 

Syn. -- Ideal; fanciful; chimerical; visionary; fancied; unreal; illusive.

 

IMAGINARY

IMAGINARY Im *ag "i *na *ry, n. (Alg. )

 

Defn: An imaginary expression or quantity.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

imaginary

im ag i nar y |iˈmajəˌnerē ɪˈmæʤəˌnɛri | ▶adjective 1 existing only in the imagination: Chris had imaginary conversations with her. 2 Mathematics (of a number or quantity ) expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number (usually the square root of −1, represented by i or j ). See also complex. DERIVATIVES im ag i nar i ly |iˌmajəˈne (ə )rəlē |adverb ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin imaginarius, from imago, imagin- ‘image. ’ usage: Imaginary means ‘product of the imagination, unreal. ’ Imaginative means ‘showing imagination, original. ’ Science fiction, for example, deals with imaginary people, places, and events; how imaginative it is depends on the writer's ability.

 

Oxford Dictionary

imaginary

im ¦agin |ary |ɪˈmadʒɪn (ə )ri | ▶adjective 1 existing only in the imagination: Chris had imaginary conversations with her. 2 Mathematics (of a number or quantity ) expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number (usually the square root of −1, represented by i or j ). See also complex. DERIVATIVES imaginarily adverb ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin imaginarius, from imago, imagin- ‘image ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

imaginary

imaginary adjective his imaginary friends: unreal, nonexistent, fictional, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, mythical, mythological, fabulous, fanciful, storybook, fantastic; made-up, dreamed-up, invented, concocted, fancied; illusory, illusive, a figment of one's imagination; archaic visionary. ANTONYMS real, actual.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

imaginary

imaginary adjective the imaginary world of the novel: unreal, non-existent, fictional, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, mythical, mythological, legendary, storybook, fanciful, fantastic; made-up, dreamed-up, invented, concocted, fabricated, fancied, the product of someone's imagination; illusory, illusive, figmental, hallucinatory, phantasmal, phantasmic, a figment of someone's imagination; dreamy, dreamlike, shadowy, unsubstantial, chimerical, ethereal; virtual, notional, hypothetical, theoretical; assumed, supposed, suppositious; archaic visionary. ANTONYMS real, actual.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

imaginary

i mag i nar y /ɪmǽdʒənèri |-dʒɪn (ə )ri /→imagine 形容詞 比較なし 1 想像上の ; 架空の, 仮想の ▸ an imaginary enemy 仮想敵国 2 〘数 〙虚 (数 )の .名詞 複 -ies C 〘数 〙虚数 (imaginary number )(↔real number ).～̀ p á rt 〘数 〙虚 (数 )部 .～̀ ú nit 〘数 〙虚数単位 〘－1の平方根 (√−1 ); ｟略 ｠i 〙.