imaginary

English

Etymology

From Latin imaginarius (“relating to images, fancied”)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

imaginary (comparative more imaginary, superlative most imaginary)

1. existing only in the imagination
2. (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.

Derived terms

• imaginarily
• imaginariness

Translations

existing in imagination

Arabic: خيالي (ar) (khiyyaalii) Bengali: কাল্পনিক (bn) (kalponik) Catalan: imaginari (ca) Czech: pomyslný (cs) m. Dutch: denkbeeldig (nl) Finnish: kuvitteellinen, imaginaarinen, imaginaari- (in compounds) German: eingebildet (de)

Hungarian: képzeletbeli (hu) Italian: immaginario (it) Latin: imaginarius (la) Latvian: iedomāts (lv) Polish: zmyślony (pl) m. Scottish Gaelic: mac-meanmnach (gd) Spanish: imaginario (es) Swedish: imaginär (sv) Turkish: sanal (tr)

non-real part of a complex number

Czech: imaginární (cs) m. Dutch: imaginair (nl) Finnish: imaginaarinen, imaginaari- (in compounds) Hungarian: imaginárius (hu), képzetes (hu)

Latvian: imaginārs (lv) m. Polish: urojona (pl) f. Spanish: imaginario (es) Swedish: imaginär (sv)