(a.) Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
(n.) An imaginary expression or quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
(2) "At first I thought we could take the six characters and transpose them to a time in the future after an imaginary climate apocalypse.
(3) The other Eurasian Union is “imaginary”, the brainchild of Putin, first mentioned in October 2011 .
(4) "I had these imaginary friends who followed me around and made me do things," she says dismissively.
(5) The score should have been tied at 2-2 and the natural German retort that one of Geoff Hurst's goals in the 1966 World Cup was imaginary hardly makes the blunder of officials more palatable in Bloemfontein.
(6) The responses of accommodation and vergence were measured simultaneously with a dual Purkinje image eye tracker and infrared optometer while subjects viewed a Maltese cross monocularly through a pinhole pupil and made voluntary efforts to imaginary changes in target distance.
(7) Such imaginary groups, when compared to the sum as a whole, are about as worrisome as America's hockey moms turned out to be.
(8) Development factors include pre- operational thinking, which prevents future planning and may require experience with sex to learn about it, and egocentricism, which implies an imaginary audience and the personal fable that "it will never happen to me."
(9) of a centrosymmetric structure factor, (ii) effect of the presence of a centrosymmetric fragment in the asymmetric unit of a non-centrosymmetric space group, and (iii) effect of heavy scatterers in special positions of a non-centrosymmetric space group, where the imaginary part of the trigonometric structure factor for these special positions vanishes by symmetry.
(10) Imaginary Manchester-United-supporting-me was inspired.
(11) At 0.5 Hz in the same state of full adaptation during fixation of an imaginary earth-fixed target subjects exhibited a gain increase of only approximately 75% indicating that the contribution of VOR adjustment is not sufficient for perfect visual stabilization at lower frequencies.
(12) 'There's a kind of imaginary Venn diagram of our interests: we have a very shared middle ground that's a lot to do with comedy and music and visual language.
(13) The America of tomorrow will look vastly different than the imaginary America that Republicans are so eager to preserve.
(14) Diffraction tomographic reconstructions of simulated data reveal the importance of absorption, the behavior of the real and imaginary parts of the reconstructed refractive index, and the relative advantages and limitations of the Born and Rytov approximate transformations.
(15) This protophallus, the imaginary phallus and the phallus of the phallic phase are later all absorbed into the psychical representation of the penis and determine the mental image in the long term.
(16) Among others who seemed to wonder if the actor was behaving like someone from another planet was George Takei – Sulu in the original Star Trek – who said he was, in response, "drafting a DNC speech to [an] imaginary Romney in an empty factory".
(17) Hedo Turkoglu was busted for PED use Despite the fact that the use of performance enhancing drugs is one of the biggest stories in sports today, alongside other notable topics such as imaginary girlfriends and ill-timed power failures, the NBA world seems strangely immune to the controversy.
(18) At the Republican convention, Clint Eastwood performed an ill-fated comedy routine with a chair, on which was seated an imaginary Barack Obama .
(19) Imaginary United-supporting-me silently approved Sir Alex's ingenuity.
(20) The so-called "borderline cases" are classified nowadays into Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD) according to DSM-III-R. We discussed them as follows: The common pathology to them is their imaginary relationship to the object of identification.
Otherworldly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Summer's vocal is no less wonderful – ethereal and otherworldly.
(2) It makes us believe that mental illness is something otherworldly.
(3) A veteran Westminster player, he lives in Salisbury, not London, most of the week, in the same otherworldly cathedral quarter as the former residence of Edward Heath.
(4) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
(5) But the price paid for Autonomy was otherworldly – it smacked of a management team that was too anxious to make a hardware-for-software switch.
(6) Croatia, Morocco and Iceland also provide otherworldly backdrops to the backstabbing and bribery of Westeros and beyond.
(7) The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
(8) "Of all the sites, it was the most depressing and slightly sordid," she says, "while other places often had an air of melancholy or seemed slightly otherworldly at dawn.
(9) He has suffered from alopecia - hair loss - since childhood, and his otherworldly air is heightened by an eerie lack of eyebrows.
(10) and Greyjoy fight one another while otherworldly ice demons rise in the northern tundra, and the Westerosi equivalent of nuclear weapons – dragons – are reaching maturity on a distant continent.
(11) I can only vouch for the R&R to be found in its calm, otherworldly landscape.
(12) She doesn’t date, is a vegan, sleeps very little, quotes Jane Austen by heart, works nonstop, dresses like Steve Jobs and as the New Yorker helpfully informs us: “several times a day she drinks a pulverized concoction of cucumber, parsley, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce and celery.” She sounds like someone who is tremendously fun to have at Scrabble night, and absolutely otherworldly … in fact, she sounds like a unicorn.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘An extraordinary, alien, otherworldly creature’: David Bowie 1947-2016 - video tribute After a 1962 schoolyard punch-up, the pupil in David’s left eye remained permanently dilated, having the serendipitous effect of lending him a vaguely unearthly appearance (the thrower of the punch, George Underwood , remained a close friend and later designed Bowie’s album artwork).
(14) The shaman sings these ancient South American chants and shakes this palm branch, and it sounds crazy-otherworldly.” Ayahuasca has gained something of a cult reputation among celebrities from Sting and Paul Simon to Lindsay Lohan and the Klaxons, though it remains illegal, and its implication in the death of a British teenager in Colombia earlier this year has cast a shadow over the rapturous accounts made by some of those who have tried it.
(15) In the first, St Matthew and his fellow taxmen, all in contemporary dress, are sitting at a table in a darkened room when Christ enters and, pointing (in a gesture taken from Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling), calls on him to join the church: at this moment of revelation the startled Matthew is spotlit by a diagonal shaft of otherworldly light.
(16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
(17) Residents say they never tire of gazing at the city centre's sublime, otherworldly architecture.
(18) "The TV shows are so good, so intriguing, that it's almost otherworldly."
(19) These have an otherworldly feel to them, as if formed by a giant poking his rough fingers deep into the island from above in a misguided mission to supply its inhabitants with swimming pools.
(20) It begins in an abyss of double-bass sonority, and builds to a screaming, discombobulating climax of mind-bending power; then there's a quieter, otherworldly section, before the terror of the first section returns.