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, 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, 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. Scott Scherr:

   I could just imagine the fear of those people.

2. Neal Kassell:

   In a simplistic sense, you can imagine that there’s a bunch of abnormal neurons in this one target that are firing away uncontrollably, causing the tremor, the shaking.

3. David Berkowitz Chicago:

   The picture is a flash of color stories. No one can imagine a picture that has no story.

4. Zoran Milanovic:

   No president has ever dared demand that from the government, which holds sessions every week, i can't imagine what it would look like, what would be the agenda. It is practically inconceivable.

5. Donald Trump:

   Can you imagine? Somebody says, 'There's Trump, he's easy pickings.' What'd you'd say?