Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to imagine
Participle: imagined
Gerund: imagining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | imagine |
| you | imagine |
| he;she;it | imagines |
| we | imagine |
| you | imagine |
| they | imagine |
Perfect
| I | have imagined |
| you | have imagined |
| he;she;it | has imagined |
| we | have imagined |
| you | have imagined |
| they | have imagined |
Past
| I | imagined |
| you | imagined |
| he;she;it | imagined |
| we | imagined |
| you | imagined |
| they | imagined |
Pluperfect
| I | had imagined |
| you | had imagined |
| he;she;it | had imagined |
| we | had imagined |
| you | had imagined |
| they | had imagined |
Future
| I | will imagine |
| you | will imagine |
| he;she;it | will imagine |
| we | will imagine |
| you | will imagine |
| they | will imagine |
Future Perfect
| I | will have imagined |
| you | will have imagined |
| he;she;it | will have imagined |
| we | will have imagined |
| you | will have imagined |
| they | will have imagined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | imagine |
| you | imagine |
| he;she;it | imagine |
| we | imagine |
| you | imagine |
| they | imagine |
Perfect
| I | have imagined |
| you | have imagined |
| he;she;it | have imagined |
| we | have imagined |
| you | have imagined |
| they | have imagined |
Imperfect
| I | imagined |
| you | imagined |
| he;she;it | imagined |
| we | imagined |
| you | imagined |
| they | imagined |
Pluperfect
| I | had imagined |
| you | had imagined |
| he;she;it | had imagined |
| we | had imagined |
| you | had imagined |
| they | had imagined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would imagine |
| you | would imagine |
| he;she;it | would imagine |
| we | would imagine |
| you | would imagine |
| they | would imagine |
Perfect
| I | would have imagined |
| you | would have imagined |
| he;she;it | would have imagined |
| we | would have imagined |
| you | would have imagined |
| they | would have imagined |
Imperative
| you | imagine |
| we | Let's imagine |
| you | imagine |
Verbs conjugated like 'imagine'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'imagine'
imagin,
image,
reimagine,
unimagine,
aline,
amain,
chagrine,
disimagine,
embrine,
engine,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to deem something true without verification or proof
- arread, assume, conject, conjecture, daresay, dope, go out on a limb, guess, guesstimate, hypothesize, infer, overhope, posit, postulate, presume, reckon, speculate, suppose, suspect, take a stab at, take something as read, ween
- think
- hypothesize, suppose, picture, conjecture, conceive, assume
- understand
- assume, suppose, believe, expect, gather
Antonyms
- understand
- misunderstand, mistake, misapprehend, misinterpret
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1340, "to form a mental image of," from O.Fr.
imaginer, from L.
imaginari "to form a mental picture to oneself, imagine" (also, in L.L.
imaginare "to form an image of, represent"), from
imago (see image). Sense of "suppose" is first recorded c.1380.
Imaginary "not real" is from 1382 (
ymaginaire). First record of
imagination "faculty of the mind which forms and manipulates images" is from c.1340 (
ymaginacion).
Imaginative first attested c.1386 (
ymaginatyf).
2. From Middle English ymagynen, from Middle French imaginer, from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”). See: Middle English '
ymagynen', Latin '
imāginor'.
Verbs referencing "imagine"
Ido imaginar, Esperanto
imagi, Thai
จิ้น.
Sample Sentences
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[...] below with his card, on the morning of the head-wind; and I was long troubled with the idea that he might be up, and well, and a hundred times a day expecting me to call upon him in the saloon. I imagined him one of those cast-iron images—I will not call them men—who ask, with red faces, and lusty voices, what sea-sickness means, and whether it really is as bad as it is represented to be. This was [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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As I walked among these solitary cells, and looked at the faces of the men within them, I tried to picture to myself the thoughts and feelings natural to their condition. I imagined the hood just taken off, and the scene of their captivity disclosed to them in all its dismal monotony.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Scarcely venturing to breathe, and listening while he thinks, he conjures up a figure with his back towards him, and imagines it moving about in this next cell. He has no idea of the face, but he is certain of the dark form of a stooping man. In the cell upon the other side, he puts another figure, whose face is hidden [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] him also. Day after day, and often when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he thinks of these two men until he is almost distracted. He never changes them. There they are always as he first imagined them—an old man on the right; a younger man upon the left—whose hidden features torture him to death, and have a mystery that makes him tremble.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] confess that I looked upon this as a very painful exhibition, and one by no means flattering to the national standard of honesty and honour. That can scarcely be a high state of moral feeling which imagines a gentleman of repute and station, likely to be corrupted, in the discharge of his duty, by the present of a snuff-box, or a richly-mounted sword, or an Eastern shawl; and surely the Nation who [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There was a man on board this boat, with a light fresh-coloured face, and a pepper-and-salt suit of clothes, who was the most inquisitive fellow that can possibly be imagined. He never spoke otherwise than interrogatively. He was an embodied inquiry. Sitting down or standing up, still or moving, walking the deck or taking his meals, there he was, with a great note of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ’ which was true enough, for I was not very well, and was lying down, with a book. I thought he had done with me after this, but I was deceived; for a long interval having elapsed, during which I imagine him to have been turning restlessly from side to side, and trying to go to sleep; he broke out again, with ‘I suppose that Boz will be writing a book by-and-by, and putting all our names in [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] down the St. Lawrence river. The beauty of this noble stream at almost any point, but especially in the commencement of this journey when it winds its way among the thousand Islands, can hardly be imagined. The number and constant successions of these islands, all green and richly wooded; their fluctuating sizes, some so large that for half an hour together one among them will appear as the opposite [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] we all were, and how loyal to the George Washington, and how full of mutual congratulations, and how venturesome in predicting the exact hour at which we should arrive at Liverpool, may be easily imagined and readily understood. Also, how heartily we drank the captain 's health that day at dinner; and how restless we became about packing up: and how two or three of the most sanguine spirits rejected [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] under an awning of transparent gauze, from the outrages of the mosquitos, and languidly holding in her hand an elegantly bound prayer-book. She was holding it because it was Sunday, and she imagined she had been reading it,—though, in fact, she had been only taking a succession of short naps, with it open in her hand.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)