Synonyms for IMAGINE
ɪˈmædʒ ɪnimag·ine

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1. imagine

   To suppose is temporarily to assume a thing as true, either with the expectation of finding it so or for the purpose of ascertaining what would follow if it were so. To suppose is also to think a thing to be true while aware or conceding that the belief does not rest upon any sure ground, and may not accord with fact; or yet again, to suppose is to imply as true or involved as a necessary inference; as, design supposes the existence of a designer. To conjecture is to put together the nearest available materials for a provisional opinion, always with some expectation of finding the facts to be as conjectured. To imagine is to form a mental image of something as existing, tho its actual existence may be unknown, or even impossible. To think, in this application, is to hold as the result of thought what is admitted not to be matter of exact or certain knowledge; as, I do not know, but I think this to be the fact: a more conclusive statement than would be made by the use of conjecture or suppose. Compare DOUBT; HYPOTHESIS.

   Synonyms:
   conjecture, deem, guess, suppose, surmise, think

   Antonyms:
   ascertain, be sure, conclude, discover, know, prove

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1. imagine

   Synonyms:
   conceive, suppose, surmise, understand, fancy, fabricate, deem, presume, think, apprehend

   Antonyms:
   represent, exhibit, demonstrate, prove, substantiate, verify, depict

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisageverb

   form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

   "Can you conceive of him as the president?"

   Synonyms:
   ideate, opine, guess, reckon, conceive of, envisage, suppose, imagine, think

2. think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guessverb

   expect, believe, or suppose

   "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

   Synonyms:
   approximate, call back, cerebrate, bet, speak out, suppose, look, reckon, hypothesise, work out, mean, view, retrieve, figure, speculate, pretend, gauge, envisage, call up, infer, judge, see, say, guess, theorize, conjecture, depend, think, calculate, cypher, venture, intend, hypothesize, opine, recollect, speak up, hazard, imagine, compute, theorise, sound off, regard, animadvert, presuppose, recall, believe, count, hypothecate, ideate, estimate, consider, remember, cogitate, forecast, cipher, conceive, conceive of, count on

Matched Categories

1. • Expect

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1. what if

   imagination! imagine!

   imagine you were in a fairyland book.

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

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1. imagineverb

   Synonyms:
   conceive, image, fancy, picture, picture to one's self, figure to one's self

2. imagineverb

   Synonyms:
   think, apprehend, suppose, believe, deem

3. imagineverb

   Synonyms:
   devise, contrive, plot, scheme, project, frame

4. imagineverb

   Synonyms:
   suppose, think, opine, fancy, dream, take it into one's head, have a notion

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1. imagineverb

   Synonyms:
   conceive, fancy, think, suppose, opine, apprehend

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1. List of paraphrases for "imagine":

   conceive, guess, lmagine, suppose, imagining, envisage, think, presume, picture, believe, envision, assume, imagines

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How to use IMAGINE in a sentence?

1. Vassilis Koliatsos:

   And because of the way vasculature is organized in the brain, most of this damage happens in the front of the brain - what we call the frontal lobes. And that's very important because this is the site, the center, of the executive functions of the brain. Functions that allow you to put your life together, organize, plan ahead, understand abstract. And you can imagine this can make your life difficult.

2. Maryann Gerber:

   If they could have done that to my face and so I didn't have to have the 6-inch scar on my face … I can't even imagine what my life would have been like for those two years.

3. Erich Fromm:

   Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.

4. H.L. Mencken:

   Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.

5. Thomas Carlyle:

   Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.