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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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