Antonyms for imagine
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ih-maj-in |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈmædʒ ɪn |
Definition of imagine
Origin :- mid-14c., "to form a mental image of," from Old French imaginer "sculpt, carve, paint; decorate, embellish" (13c.), from Latin imaginari "to form a mental picture to oneself, imagine" (also, in Late Latin imaginare "to form an image of, represent"), from imago (see image). Sense of "suppose" is first recorded late 14c. Related: Imagined; imagining.
- verb dream up, conceive
- verb assume, deduce
- He cannot imagine a more salutary mode of exhausting his force.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- What do you imagine you could employ yourself with down there?
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- It arose, I imagine, from an excess of the masculine element in his nature.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- "You could not imagine what occurred next," said the bright-faced teacher.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- They won't come, to be sure; but just imagine it if they should!
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- Imagine what a contrast it would be to anything that she has ever seen!
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- To imagine that for anything she would forsake the work she had been sent to do!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- I imagine he was asked by the author to touch up "Pericles."
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- Let us imagine Man ere he began to make gods in his own image.
- Extract from : « The Non-Christian Cross » by John Denham Parsons
- Just imagine; and that, too, at fourscore and ten years of age.
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
Synonyms for imagine
- apprehend
- believe
- brainstorm
- build castles in air
- conceptualize
- conjecture
- conjure up
- cook up
- create
- deem
- depict
- devise
- envisage
- envision
- expect
- fabricate
- fancy
- fantasize
- fantasy
- feature
- figure
- form
- frame
- gather
- guess
- harbor
- image
- infer
- invent
- make up
- nurture
- perceive
- picture
- plan
- presume
- project
- realize
- reckon
- scheme
- see in one's mind
- spark
- suppose
- surmise
- suspect
- take for granted
- take it
- think
- think of
- think up
- understand
- vision
- visualize
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