imagine
About 28.15 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
Try to imagine a pink elephant.
- verb To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
- verb To assume; to suppose.
I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
- verb To conjecture; to guess.
I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
- verb To use one's imagination.
Imagine that we were siblings.
- verb To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
- verb Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
Imagine thinking that would work.
- noun A short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity.
Similar words
envisage ideate think guess suppose reckon conceive of envision imagination conceive
Often followed by
that the a what how it you an him
Word family
imagined imagines imagining imagining things
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