Imagine

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
2. (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
3. (transitive) To assume; to suppose.
4. (transitive) To conjecture; to guess.
5. (intransitive) To use one's imagination.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
7. (transitive, Internet slang, rhetorical, sarcastic) Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
8. (fandom slang) A short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity.

Example Sentences

Try to imagine a pink elephant.

Imagine yourself in a packed airport lounge.

Imagine sitting on a tropical beach with a cool mimosa.

Imagine all the people / Livin' life in peace

Or in the night, imagining ſome feare, / How eaſie is a buſh ſuppos’d a Beare?

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.

There's nothing there; you're just imagining things.

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Antonyms for imagine

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• imagines
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• imaginest
• imaginedst
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