imagine

imagine is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

if - imagine - important

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/

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• Hyphenation: imag‧ine

Verb

Plain form imagine

Third-person singular imagines

Past tense imagined

Past participle imagined

Present participle imagining

1. (transitive) If you imagine something, you make a picture of it in your head.

   Imagine that you're sitting at a table with all the food you can eat.

   I imagined myself fighting a monster.

   I imagined myself in a forest while an animal was chasing after me.

   I felt creepy when I imagined a spider crawling on me.

   It feels fun to imagine myself in the 50s and 90s, I wasn't even born in those decades.

2. (transitive) If you imagine something, you think or believe it without knowing.

   I imagine everybody will be there.

   Maybe you just imagined that the phone rang.

Synonyms

• dream
• pretend
• believe
• think
• expect
• visualize
• envision

Antonyms

• doubt

Related words

• image
• imagination
• imaginary
• imagining
• unimagined
• imaginative
• imaginatively
• imaginable
• unimaginable
• unimaginably
• imaginably
• unimaginative
• unimaginatively