figment | Definition of figment

Synonyms and Antonyms of figment

1 a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

unable to find any tracks in the snow the next morning, I was forced to conclude that the shadowy figure had been a figment of my imagination

Synonyms of figment

chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision

Words Related to figment

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare

Phrases Synonymous with figment

castle in Spain, castle in the air

Near Antonyms of figment

actuality, fact, reality

2 something that is the product of the imagination

thus far, the invisible human being has been nothing more than a figment of fantasy writers

Synonyms of figment

fable, fabrication, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, invention

Words Related to figment

anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn

fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper

Near Antonyms of figment

actuality, realness

Antonyms of figment

fact, materiality, reality