adjective
1.
having no real existence but existing in imagination
elves are imaginary beings
Synonyms: fancied, fanciful, imagined, notional, shadowy
Related Word: imaginative; abstract, hypothetical, ideal, visionary; apparitional, chimerical, fantastic, figmental, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, spectral; unreal, unsubstantial
Contrasted words: genuine, true, valid
Antonyms: actual, real
2.
Synonyms: fictitious 1, chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictive, illusory, suppositious, supposititious, unreal
Antonyms: actual, real