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Meanings of imaginary creature in English
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ésser imaginari A creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction.
Synonyms
Examples for "imaginary being"
Examples for "imaginary being"
1
They worshipped an imaginary being who had created and possessed absolute control of everything.
2
I have always supposed Neptune to be an imaginary being.
3
To them the socialist, who had scarcely received a name, was an imaginary being.
4
Your life, and that of Pleyel, are exacted from him by this imaginary being.
5
God is a word used to designate an imaginary being which people of themselves have devised.
Usage of imaginary creature in English
1
An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature.
2
He began to be obsessed by the real woman as he had been by the imaginary creature.
3
When the difficulty becomes altogether too importunate, quick, a precursor, to fill up the gaps, quick, an imaginary creature, the nebulous plaything of the mind!
4
That he was making a supreme effort to render his imaginary creatures deadly was apparent.
5
It lives in the imagination in a way that novels and fairy stories or imaginary creatures do.
6
They are imaginary creatures not intended to have any reference to the real world and certainly not blackface.
7
"And was that Dorothy whom I loved in youth an imaginary creature?"
8
For a guy who'd just had a couple of close encounters with imaginary creatures, he seemed to be fairly coherent.
9
Some of the transient visitors you have seen, and in addition hereabouts dwell the year round all manner of imaginary creatures.
10
"Is it any more preposterous than to travel with an imaginary creature like a centaur?"
11
All human cultures seem to have this overlay of imaginary creatures, with ghosts, as representatives of people now dead, constituting a major component.
12
"I'm not quite sure, but I think it's a wholly imaginary creature much taken by the charms of haberdashery clerks."
13
"Mr. Williams, don't you see that this is a god of your own making, an imaginary creature of your own mind?"
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