figment

🇬🇧 UK/'figmәnt/🇺🇸 US
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Definitions

n.

Something invented or imagined, especially an unlikely or untrue idea

虚构的事物;幻想

🧩 Root Breakdown

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Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The monster in the story turned out to be merely a figment of childhood imagination.

  • 2.

    Scientists debated whether certain paranormal phenomena were actual or figments.

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