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imagine
Overview of verb imagine
The verb imagine has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (66) imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage -- (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?")
2. (11) think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess -- (expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up")
Antonyms of verb imagine
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb imagine
2 senses of imagine
Sense 1
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> make, create
Sense 2
think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
=> expect, anticipate
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb imagine
2 senses of imagine
Sense 1
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
=> visualize, visualise
=> envision, foresee
=> fantasize, fantasise
=> prefigure
=> think
=> fantasy, fantasize, fantasise
=> dream, daydream, woolgather, stargaze
Sense 2
think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
=> suspect
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb imagine
2 senses of imagine
Sense 1
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> create by mental act, create mentally
Sense 2
think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
=> expect, anticipate
'Cause To' of verb imagine
Derived Forms of verb imagine
1 of 2 senses of imagine
Sense 1
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
RELATED TO>(adj) imaginative#1
=> imaginative, ingenious, inventive
RELATED TO>(noun) imagination#2
=> imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
RELATED TO>(noun) imagination#1
=> imagination, imaginativeness, vision
Domain of verb imagine
Domain Terms of verb imagine
Familiarity of verb imagine
imagine used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb imagine
2 senses of imagine
Sense 1
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 2
think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
EX: They imagine that there was a traffic accident
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb imagine
2 senses of imagine
Sense 1
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
> create by mental act, create mentally
=> draw, make
=> re-create
=> give birth
=> schematize
=> invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge
=> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> plan, project, contrive, design
=> design, plan
=> write
=> evolve, germinate, develop
=> program, programme
=> construct
=> construct
Sense 2
think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
> expect, anticipate
=> think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
=> assume, presume, take for granted
=> speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
=> believe, trust
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb imagine
Sense 1
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> create by mental act, create mentally
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Sense 2
think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
=> expect, anticipate
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Grep of verb imagine
imagine
Grep of adj imagine
imagined
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