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[ adjective ] not based on fact; dubious
Examples "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt "a small child's imaginary friends" "her imagined fame" "to create a notional world for oneself" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Platonic , Stoic , early Christian , monastic , canonist or theological communism ; we are concerned with Utopian communism - that_is , simply communism as it appears in the imaginary commonwealth of Utopia , as More conceived it . Moreover , it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato 's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods , wives , and children , was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; and it is to this problem that the Republic ultimately returns . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Certain this menace was only imaginary , he yet stared in fascinated horror , his hand sticky against the stock of his weapon . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Then he played nine imaginary holes of golf , choosing his handicap , his irons , his stance , his opponents , and his weather in_detail , but the green of the links seemed faded in the light of his business worries . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)He demonstrated by playing an imaginary piano , doing a staccato passage with a broadly exaggerated attack . Related terms |
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