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- pronunciation:
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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word History, Word Explorer, 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.Can you imagine living in an underwater world?The teacher asked the students to imagine what their lives would be like in the future.The hotel room was not what I had imagined.I had imagined the apartment to be much bigger.She had imagined him more handsome, but she found him attractive nonetheless.
- 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.- 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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