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- pronunciation:
mae
jihn
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word History, Word Explorer, Grammatical Patterns, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
imagines, imagining, imagined |
| definition 1: |
to create mental images of (something not known, not real, or not yet real).
I could not imagine what my real father might look like.[verb + WH/whether/if + clause
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Can you imagine living in an underwater world?[verb + gerund
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The teacher asked the students to imagine what their lives would be like in the future.[verb + WH/whether/if + clause
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The hotel room was not what I had imagined.I had imagined the apartment to be much bigger.[verb + smby/smth + to be + noun/adj
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She had imagined him more handsome, but she found him attractive nonetheless.[verb + smby/smth + noun/adj
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- 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 that he will be here tomorrow, but I can't really say for sure.[verb + (that) + clause
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- 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.
She was imagining, dreaming of things she would someday accomplish.- synonyms:
- visualize
- similar words:
- conceive, create, dream, ideate, think
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| related words: |
compose, daydream, make believe, pretend, romance |
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Imagine comes from imaginari, a Latin word that means "to form an image in one's own mind."
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