EGAVE

imagine

About 28.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
    Try to imagine a pink elephant.
  2. verb To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
    She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
  3. verb To assume; to suppose.
    I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
  4. verb To conjecture; to guess.
    I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
  5. verb To use one's imagination.
    Imagine that we were siblings.
  6. verb To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
  7. verb Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
    Imagine thinking that would work.
  8. 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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