Imaginary vs Fabulous - What's the difference?
imaginary | fabulous | Related terms |
existing only in the imagination
* Addison
(mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
Imagination; fancy.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
(mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
of or relating to fable, myth or legend.
characteristic of fables; marvelous, extraordinary, incredible, unbelievable, absurd, extreme, or exaggerated.
fictional or not believable; made up.
known for telling fables or falsehoods; unreliable.
very good; outstanding, wonderful.
Imaginary is a related term of fabulous.
As adjectives the difference between imaginary and fabulous
is that imaginary is existing only in the imagination while fabulous is of or relating to fable, myth or legend.As a noun imaginary
is imagination; fancy.imaginary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
Derived terms
* imaginarily * imaginarinessNoun
(imaginaries)- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
