Existing only in imagination or fancy; having no real existence; not real or actual. Formerly also: existing only as spirit, not corporeal (obsolete)…

Existing only in the imagination; unreal, fancied, imaginary. Now rare.

That exists only in the mind; having no actual physical presence. Cf. real, adj.2 1a. Obsolete.

= fantastic, adj. 4.

Framed by the fancy; imaginary. Now spec. in Psychol.

Located high in the air, lofty. Hence: exalted, celestial.

Formed or portrayed by the fancy; existing only in the fancy; imaginary.

Described or related in legends (as opposed to reliable historical sources). In early use sometimes more generally: †having no foundation in fact…

That has been dreamed about, imagined, or longed for. Also dreamed-of, dreamed-about.

Having no real existence, fictitious, invented.

Existing only in idea; confined to thought or imagination; imaginary: opposed to real or actual. Also: not real or practical; based on an idea or…

In passive sense. Originating in fiction, created by the imagination, fictitious. Of a name: Assumed.

= affective, adj. 5. Obsolete.

Not existing in substance or reality; not real; imaginary, illusive; non-substantial.

Imaginary; imagined.

Pretended or imagined to exist; feigned, fictitious; fabulous; fancied, imaginary.

Feigned to exist; existing only in imagination; imaginary, unreal.

Of a place: imaginary, mythical, non-existent (without implication of perfection). Now rare.

Imaginary, non-existent; = utopian, adj. 3. Obsolete. rare.

Of a thing, a relation, etc.: not substantially or actually existent; existing only in thought; imaginary.

Existing in feeling or disposition, as distinguished from external manifestation. Contrasted with effective. Obsolete. rare.

= fictitious, adj.

= notional, adj. (in various senses).

Of the nature of a figment; fictitious, imaginary, not real.

Fictitious; imaginary; = supposititious, adj. 2.

= feigned, adj. 2. In quot. 1677 absol. or quasi-adv.

Existing in imagination only; imaginary; not actual or real.

Fanciful, fantastic, imaginary. Obsolete.

That has not been realized (in various senses of realize, v.2).

Based upon or drawn from conceptions of the fancy (B. 3), as fancy picture, fancy piece, fancy portrait, fancy sketch.

Existing in the mind only, without anything real to correspond to it; illusory, fanciful.

Ethereal, insubstantial, immaterial; (also) unreal, imaginary; fanciful, other-worldly.

In uses derived from the philosophical sense. More generally: abstract, metaphysical, a priori.

Resembling cardboard; (figurative) flimsy, superficial, unreal; (of food) hard, dry, or bland.

Having no foundation in fact; fictitious, imaginary.

figurative. Flimsy, insubstantial; (esp. of a character in a play, film, etc.) unreal, stereotyped, one-dimensional.

Existing only in fiction; imaginary, pretended.

= figmental, adj.

Of or characterizing any of various (hypothetical or imagined) realities, worlds, or realms of existence, differing from our own in trivial or…

= alternative, adj. 3b.

Concerned with ideas as opposed to reality.

Characterized by the possession of fancy (rare).

Existing only in imagination; proceeding merely from imagination; fabulous, imaginary, unreal (obs.).