imagine

verbdream up, conceive

verbassume, deduce

Synonyms for imagine

verb dream up, conceive

Antonyms for imagine

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for imagine

He cannot imagine a more salutary mode of exhausting his force.

What do you imagine you could employ yourself with down there?

It arose, I imagine, from an excess of the masculine element in his nature.

"You could not imagine what occurred next," said the bright-faced teacher.

They won't come, to be sure; but just imagine it if they should!

Imagine what a contrast it would be to anything that she has ever seen!

To imagine that for anything she would forsake the work she had been sent to do!

I imagine he was asked by the author to touch up "Pericles."

Let us imagine Man ere he began to make gods in his own image.

Just imagine; and that, too, at fourscore and ten years of age.

imagine

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assume

assumes

bargain for

bargained for

believe

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assume

assumes

bargain for

bargained for

believe

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apprehend