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figmentfig‧ment /ˈfɪɡmənt/ noun  figmentOrigin: 1400-1500 Latin figmentum, from fingere; ➔ FIGURE1 - He was a ghost I carried around inside me, a prehistoric figment, a thing that was no longer real.
- No one ever turned up such a child, whose existence seems to have been yet another figment of fertile right-wing imaginations.
- Suddenly, it seemed utterly unbelievable, a mere figment of her dreamlike state.
- True, the commercially successful electric car is still a figment.
- Whether the circle of churches exists, or whether it is a figment of a map-maker's imagination remains to be seen.
to wrongly think that something is happening► imagine to wrongly think that you can see or hear something when it is not really happening: imagine (that): · When I was a child I would lie awake imagining that there were monsters in the dark corners of my room.· Mary was always imagining that people were talking about her behind her back.I/you/he etc must be imagining things: · "I'm sure I saw Brian in the park today.'' "No, you must be imagining things. Brian hasn't lived here for nearly fifteen years.'' ► be seeing things especially spoken say this when you or someone else has imagined something that cannot be real: I/you/he etc must be seeing things: · "Did that man just wave at me?'' "Of course not, you must be seeing things.'' ► be in the mind/be in your mind if something is in the mind or in your mind , you are imagining it and it does not really exist: all in the mind: · I don't think Martin is really ill -- it's all in the mind.all in your mind: · No-one is trying to kill you. It's all in your mind. ► hallucinate if someone who is ill or has taken drugs hallucinates , they believe that they can see things that are not really there: · After two days without food and water, Voss began to hallucinate. ► figment of your imagination something that does not really exist and that you were just imagining: · Sceptics will tell you that there is no such thing as reincarnation and that living a previous life is a figment of the subject's imagination. ► a figment of somebody’s imagination- These two men actually lived; they weren't figments of some writer's imagination.
- But don't take my word for it; this is not a figment of the journalistic imagination.
- It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination.
- Nearly three years after work had begun, the dam was still a figment of the imagination.
- Neither one was a figment of his imagination.
- The carpet is a figment of the imagination: an oriental pattern of light and shadow projected on the floor.
- The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth's imagination: it stands in some way in relation to his conscience.
- The gymslip Lolita is not entirely a figment of the male imagination.
- The ugly rectory is a figment of my imagination, for there was never such a building on Wood Green.
► be (a figment of) somebody’s imagination- All that is left to connect us to the past is the imagination.
- My subject was landscape and imagination.
- No, it was just my imagination running riot.
- Puny appeared thoughtful, or was it his imagination?
- The real limit to whatever ingenious notions and ideas we may develop is our own imagination.
- Thoughts are things; imagination is experience.
- Was it his imagination, or could he really feel the beginnings of a headache?
- Yet it was not all imagination.
a figment of somebody’s imagination something that you imagine is real, but does not exist |