Thesaurus / imaginary
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Before the pandemic, every time I left the house, I put on an imaginary “mask” so I could interact with people.
I’M AUTISTIC. I’M HOPING I CAN WEAR A MASK FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.CHRISTINE M. CONDOFEBRUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
To the child, although they know that it is an imaginary being, the friend apparently has a mind of its own—sometimes saying it’s too busy to play, for example.
CAN YOU TREAT LONELINESS BY CREATING AN IMAGINARY FRIEND? - FACTS SO ROMANTICJIM DAVIESJANUARY 15, 2021NAUTILUS
After turning around and flexing, Beal locked eyes with Russell Westbrook on the sideline, and both players cradled an imaginary bundle in their arms — rock the baby.
AT LAST, WIZARDS GET THEIR FIRST WIN BY CRUISING TO A ROUT OF THE TIMBERWOLVESAVA WALLACEJANUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
It’s the imaginary line that goes longways through the football.
RESEARCHERS REVEAL THE SECRET TO THE PERFECT FOOTBALL THROWHARINI BARATHDECEMBER 15, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
That’s why he won, not because of some imaginary manufacturing of votes in Philadelphia.
TEXAS HAS MANAGED THE NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE: ITS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LAWSUIT JUST GOT WORSEPHILIP BUMPDECEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POST
He was continually presenting innumerable imaginary fivers to little people.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
And then at last the man himself took to forgetting the imaginary writer and poured out words of love, warm, true, and passionate.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art.
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENS
He believed in demons, spirits, and dragons, and in nearly every house were idols in honour of the imaginary deities.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKE
These stories represent early traditions and may easily be true, though they may be merely imaginary.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISON
WORDS RELATED TO IMAGINARY
- apocryphal
- beguiling
- bogus
- casuistic
- concocted
- contrary to fact
- cooked-up
- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceiving
- delusive
- dishonest
- distorted
- erroneous
- ersatz
- fake
- fallacious
- fanciful
- faulty
- fictitious
- fishy
- fraudulent
- illusive
- imaginary
- improper
- inaccurate
- incorrect
- inexact
- invalid
- lying
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresentative
- mistaken
- off the mark
- phony
- sham
- sophistical
- specious
- spurious
- trumped up
- unfounded
- unreal
- unsound
- untrue
- untruthful
- apocryphal
- artificial
- assumed
- bogus
- chimerical
- concocted
- cooked-up
- counterfeit
- created
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dishonest
- ersatz
- fabricated
- factitious
- fake
- faked
- false
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fashioned
- feigned
- fictional
- fictive
- figmental
- hyped up
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- improvised
- invented
- made
- make-believe
- misleading
- mock
- mythical
- phony
- queer
- romantic
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- suppositious
- supposititious
- synthetic
- trumped-up
- unreal
- academic
- assumptive
- casual
- concocted
- conditional
- conjecturable
- conjectural
- contestable
- contingent
- debatable
- disputable
- doubtful
- equivocal
- imaginary
- imagined
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- postulated
- presumptive
- pretending
- problematic
- provisory
- putative
- questionable
- refutable
- speculative
- stochastic
- supposed
- suppositional
- suppositious
- suspect
- theoretic
- theoretical
- uncertain
- unconfirmed
- vague
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