Imagine

Verb

 * 1)  To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
 * Try to imagine a pink elephant.
 * 1)  To believe in something created by one's own mind.
 * She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
 * 1)  To assume.
 * I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
 * 1)  To conjecture or guess.
 * I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
 * 1)  To use one's imagination.
 * Imagine that we were siblings
 * 1)  To guess or conjecture.
 * Let me imagine - it's a ring!
 * ''The board imagines the merger should increase profits about a quarter

Derived terms

 * imaginable
 * imaginal
 * imaginary
 * imagination
 * imaginative

Related terms

 * image
 * imagery
 * imago

Adverbs for Imagine
optimistically; poetically; nobly; vainly; fondly; swiftly; vividly; vaguely; naively; emotionally; morbidly; ardently; capriciously; irreverently; indolently; exuberantly; heatedly; sluggishly; daringly; irrepressibiy; scientifically; riotously.

Thesaurus
account as, assume, be afraid, believe, coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, conclude, concoct, conjecture, consider, contemplate, cook up, create, daresay, deduce, deem, devise, divine, dream, dream up, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, expect, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, feature, feel, fictionalize, gather, grant, guess, hatch, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, ideate, image, infer, invent, judge, let, let be, look upon, look upon as, maintain, mold, opine, originate, picture, ponder, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, produce, provisionally accept, realize, reckon, regard, repute, say, see, set down as, shape, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, think of, think up, trow, understand, view, view as, vision, visualize, ween

Etymology
imaginer:, from imaginari:, from imago:.

Translations

 * Arabic: تخيل
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 * Danish: forestille sig
 * Dutch: zich inbeelden, zich verbeelden, zich voorstellen
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 * French:
 * German: sich vorstellen,,  einbilden
 * Hebrew: לתאר
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 * Romanian: imagina, închipui
 * Russian:,  представить ,   ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: föreställa sig


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Noun

 * 1) image

Etymology
imago