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im·ag·ine
 imagine
- pronunciation:
mae
jihn
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
imagined, imagines, imagining |
| definition 1: |
to create mental images of (things not present to the senses).
- synonyms:
- dream, envision, fancy, ideate, picture, prefigure, reproduce, think, visualize
- similar words:
- conceive, fantasy
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| definition 2: |
to guess or assume; suppose.
I imagine he will be here tomorrow.- synonyms:
- assume, believe, fancy, guess, reckon, suppose, think
- similar words:
- conclude, judge, presume, suspect
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| related words: |
believe, conjecture, contemplate, contrive, entertain, figure, hope, image, pretend, suppose, surmise, think, vision |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to create mental images of things not present to the senses.
- synonyms:
- visualize
- similar words:
- conceive, create, dream, ideate, think
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| related words: |
compose, daydream, make believe, pretend, romance |
Imagine comes from imaginari, a Latin word that means "to form an image in one's own mind."
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