Legendary vs Imaginary - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
Appearing (solely) in legends.
Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
(obsolete) A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
(obsolete) One who relates legends.
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.
Legendary is a related term of imaginary.
As adjectives the difference between legendary and imaginary
is that legendary is of or pertaining to a legend or to legends while imaginary is existing only in the imagination.As nouns the difference between legendary and imaginary
is that legendary is (obsolete) a collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints while imaginary is imagination; fancy.legendary
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Adjective
(-)- And it was a fitting victory for Liverpool as Anfield celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of their legendary Scottish manager Bill Shankly.
Noun
(legendaries)imaginary
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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.