imagined story

[nurdug51]

Can you use the verb imagine as an adjective in the following example:

It's a story that is imagined.

Meaning: a story like a tall story, a story that somebody has invented, that isn't true.

 

[The Newt]

You could, but "imaginary" (or "invented") is the word we normally use.

 

[e2efour]

I would say imaginary, perhaps before story.

(cross-posted with The Newt)

 

[Packard]

If it is not true, it is fiction. If it is true, it is non-fiction.

Adjectives can modify "fiction", such as "fantastical fiction", "Bunyanesque fiction", "wildly imaginative fiction", etc.