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UK
/fˈɪɡmənt/
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[ US /ˈfɪɡmɪnt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪɡmɪnt/ ]
NOUN
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a contrived or fantastic idea
a figment of the imagination
How To Use figment In A Sentence
- Doctor, are you suggesting the pain is a figment of my imagination?
- Vnde missarum sacrificia, quibus uulgo dicebatur, Sacerdotem offerre Christum in remissionem poena aut culpae pro uiuis et defunctis, blasphema figmenta sunt, et pernitiosae imposturae. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
- Life will now become a flat, prosaic routine of matter-of-fact; and sleep itself, erst so prolific of numerical configurations and mysterious stimulants to lottery-adventure, will be disfurnished of its figures and figments. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
- Doctor, are you suggesting the pain is a figment of my imagination?
- Nearly three years after work had begun, the dam was still a figment of the imagination.
- * Quia nihil hoc cavilla proficiunt Judaei, ad figmentum venturi sui Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
- Besides, as often remarked, it is a human figment which is not commanded, and is unnecessary and useless; for the holy The Smalcald Articles
- These people do exist; they're not figments of my imagination.
- She knew now that these visions were not figments of her imagination.
- I was stuck in the sterile aerie of a creature who could fly—why would I assume that mysterious dark wings were a figment of my imagination? Raziel