Antonyms for imagining
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ih-maj-in |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈmædʒ ɪn |
Definition of imagining
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
- His brother; imagining he had gone abroad, was unacquainted with his danger.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- His earthly future, a future of his own imagining, drew him.
- Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
- She smiled to herself again, imagining question and answer with Ruffo.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- He clasped her gently, imagining that he might calm her by his embrace.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- They are searching the shop, knocking the books about, imagining we are hidden among them!
- Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
- Was there any common sense in imagining that people were persecuting him in that way?
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- Eric asked and wondered whether he was imagining a tremor in his voice.
- Extract from : « The Education of Eric Lane » by Stephen McKenna
- I was wrong in imagining that all the four elements could be generated into and out of one another.
- Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
- Perhaps, however, this was but his imagining, a sort of reflection of his own misery.
- Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- I've been imagining everything bad that could possibly happen.
- Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln
Synonyms for imagining
- 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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