imaginary

Modifies a noun

• aunt: The teacher asked the pupils to solve a money problem involving an imaginary rich aunt.
• playmate: In children, the symptoms are not attributable to imaginary playmates or other fantasy play.
• ailment: In spite of me telling her to keep the chat soley about G/D She ignores that and starts chatting about all her imaginary ailments.
• friend: You could also ask, gently, about imaginary friends: Do the children have them?
• conversation: It is also reasonable to have imaginary conversations with those for whom we grieve perhaps by using a treasured photograph.
• creature: For children in Year 3 upwards we would like them to design and make an imaginary sea creature.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: Any colors seen in films or in books are purely imaginary.
• wholly: The wholly imaginary landscapes of the essayist and painter Cecil Collins had attained their conviction in the 1930s through sheer invention.
• largely: Actually, this threat was largely imaginary, or at the very least negligible.
• entirely: Of course the character could be entirely imaginary - in which case MacMillan would probably enjoy the speculation.
• only: Thus present itself being only imaginary, past and future are equally so.
• not: Here was a real translation, a transportation from place to place, not imaginary, for then Christ had been in no danger.

Used with adjective complement

consider: I'd say that that's a pretty good reason why your so-called jesus could be considered imaginary.