Imagine

Definition: Imagine

Imagine

Verb

1. 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. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "imagine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Imagine \Im*ag"ine\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Imagined; Imagining.]. (references)

IMAGINE

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Synonyms: Imagine

Imagination

Verb: imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name".

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Crosswords: Imagine

French (imagines), Italian (image), Latin (appearance, echo, ghost, idea, image, likeness, phantom, statue), Romanian (frame, icon, idea, idol, image, likeness, picture, portrait, representation, shape).

I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Usually a lot less than people imagine. (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

I was walking around, feeling satisfied, can you imagine that (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

Well, you can imagine how I feel (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

Imagine all the people ("Imagine"; performing artist: John Lennon)

And don't imagine you're too familiar, (Just The Way You Are; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Can you imagine how I feel today, (We Don't Talk Anymore; performing artist: Cliff Richard)

Oh I could not imagine this dream coming true (The Earth, The Sun, The Rain; performing artist: Color Me Badd)

Can't imagine needing someone so (Through The Years; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie? (references; author: unknown)

Imagine (2000)

Can You Imagine (1936)

Imagine My Embarassment (1930)

Just Imagine (1930)

Imagine My Embarrassment (1928)

Imagine (performing artist: John Lennon)

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References

• Imagine: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Street-Smart Network Marketing: A No-Nonsense Guide for Creating the Most Richly Rewarding Lifestyle You Can Possibly Imagine (reference)

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Periodicals

• Imagine That (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Kipper - Imagine That (reference)

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Music

• Imagine (reference)

• Imagine [CD Maxi] [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Imagine [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

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High Tech

• Imagine It Spiritual Graphics (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Rhino Pillow - John Lennon Imagine (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Imagine turning your home computer into the equivalent of a professional telescope which can ... Credit: NASA.

If you think zits are the pits, imagine getting AIDS p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jerry LaRocca..

Imagine him on a slushy, snowy night-- tearing out those packages. Credit: Library of Congress.

I can't imagine what's the matter with him, Uncle, he never acted like this before. Credit: Library of Congress.

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May the commands then of a prince be opposed? May he be resisted as often as any one shall find himself aggrieved, and but imagine he has not right done him? This will unhinge and overturn all polities, and, instead of government and order, leave nothing but anarchy and confusion. (Second Treatise of Government)

Again one cannot imagine a regenerated Europe without a strong France. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Emma could imagine she saw a touch of the arm at this speech, from his wife

Providence had meditated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself

It is a sweet thing for him to imagine that there still remains something of what he saw when he was in his own country, and that all is not vanished

Try to imagine the awful meaning of this

Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood Touches me deeper than you can imagine.

This gave me some faint hopes of relief, although I was not able to imagine how it could be brought about

We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter

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Health

For example, imagine that an outbreak has occurred after a catered event. (references)

It holds your memories, allows you to plan, enables you to imagine and think. (references)

When people think about bats, they often imagine things that are not true. Bats are not blind. (references)

Business

If a similar figure can be applied to residential buildings, including apartment blocks, it is not hard to imagine the consequences of a serious fire in a 20-storey building. (references)

The use of gene technology for accelerated plant growth was viewed positively by only 23%. Momentarily more than 50% percent of German consumers could imagine paying higher prices for genetically untreated food products. (references)

Among the important low-volume manufacturers, there are only two other producers of note - Rolls Royce (now owned by Volkswagen) and TVR. It is hard to imagine that there will be any further consolidation within the U.K.'s domestic automobile producers. (references)

Political Economy

Georgia

But as few can imagine a plausible alternative, cynicism and personal feuding have become the main staples of Georgian political life. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "imagine": imagine that ♦ imagine wrongly. Additional references.

Beginning with "imagine": imagine-quite.

Ending with "imagine": im-imagine.

Afrikaans

verbeeld hom (fancy). (various references)

Albanian

imagjinoj (depicture, dream, fancy, give reins to one's imagination, image, realize, think up), supozoj (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, guess, hypothesize, make, make advances to, presume, presuppose, rate, reckon for, suppose), parafytyroj, përfytyroj (conceive, depicture, dream, dream up, envision, fancy, figure, figure to oneself, give rein to one's imagination, image, picture, realize, visualize), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تصور (be photographed, conceive, conception, envisage, fantasy, ideation, imagination, phantasy, picture, project, see, suppose, vision, visualization, visualize), ‏تخيل (conceive, dream up, envisage, fancy, feature, fiction, figure, figure to oneself, image, make believe, picture, project oneself, see, think, vision, visualization, visualize), ‏إفترض (assume, postulate, presume, reckon, suppose), ‏إعتقد (believe, calculate, conceive, consider, deem, reckon, say, suppose, think), ‏ظن (calculate, fancy, guess, misgiving, reckon, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, think), ‏شبه (affinity, assimilate, compare, comparison, feature, like, liken, likeness, parallelism, propinquity, quasi-, resemblance, resemble, resole, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude, take after). (various references)

Basque

uste izan (imagine to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

струва ми се (appear, fancy, guess, methinks), въобразявам си (fancy, image, represent to oneself, suppose, think), мисля (deliberate, figure, guess, opine, pore, puzzle, puzzle over, reason, reckon, repute, see, suppose, think, ween, weigh), представям си (conceive, dream, envisage, fancy, figure to oneself, image, picture to oneself, represent to oneself, see, suppose, think), предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, divine, expect, guess, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween). (various references)

Chinese 

設想 (assume, tentative plan), 想象 (Envisage, Envisaged, Envisaging, Fancied, Fancying, imagined, imaging, Imagining), 想像 (visualize). (various references)

Czech

představit si (envisage, fancy, see, think, visualize), předpokládat (assume, involve, postulate, presume, presuppose, suppose, surmise, trust, visualize). (various references)

Danish

forestille (fancy, introduce, offer, perform, present, tender). (various references)

Dutch

zich verbeelden (fancy), bedenken (fancy, invent, reflect on, think, think about). (various references)

Esperanto

imagi (fancy). (various references)

Faeroese

hugsa sær (fancy). (various references)

Farsi 

فرض کردن (Adjudge, Aim, Assume, Count, Deem, Hypothesize, Posit, Presume, Put, Repute, Suppose), پنداشتن (Assume, Coneive, Count, Deem, Suppose, Take), حدس زدن (Conjecture, Guess, Guesstimate, Rede, Surmise), تفکرکردن (Chew, Consider, Contemplate, Meditate, Muse, Ponder, Speculate), تصورکردن (Coneive, Fancy), انگاشتن (Assume, Suppose). (various references)

Finnish

luulotella (fancy, persuade oneself), luulla (believe, suppose, think), kuvitella (figure to oneself). (various references)

French

imaginer (image). (various references)

Frisian

ferbyldzje (fancy). (various references)

German

sich vorstellen (come to an interview, conceive of, fancy, introduce oneself, make believe, see, to imagine, to realize), sich einbilden (fancy). (various references)

Greek 

φαντάζομαι (conceive, envisage, fancy, image, visualize). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתאר לעצמו (envisage, fancy, figure to oneself), לשער לעצמו, לעלות בדעתו (cross one's mind, get an idea), לדמין (envisage, picture), לדמות (liken). (various references)

Hungarian

vél (believe, deem, opine, presume, reckon, think, to calculate, to conceit, to guess, to presume, to put down, to surmise, to trow), képzel (to conceit, to fancy, to suppose, ween), elképzel (envisage, fancy, ideate, think out, to envisage, to figure, to imagine, to picture to oneself, to project, to project oneself into sg, to visualise, to visualize, visualize). (various references)

Indonesian

mengangan-angankan (contemplate, fantasize, ponder, recall), mengaci-acikan (suppose), membayangkan (adumbrate, reflect an image, show). (various references)

Italian

figurarsi (fancy, figure, picture). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

描き出す (to delineate, to draw, to express, to imagine), 思い込む (to be bent on, to be convinced that, to be under impression that, to imagine that, to set one's heart on), 思い描く (to figure, to imagine, to picture, to see), 心に描く (to imagine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもいこむ (to be bent on, to be convinced that, to be under impression that, to imagine that, to set one's heart on), おもいえがく (to figure, to imagine, to picture, to see), こころにえがく (to imagine), えがきだす (to delineate, to draw, to express, to imagine). (various references)

Korean 

상상하십시요 (Envisage). (various references)

Manx

shein (conjecture, guess, presume, speculate, suppose), sheiltyn (conceive, conceiving, conjecture, fancy, guess, presume, speculate, suppose, supposing, theorize, visualize). (various references)

Maya

pa'apat (to imagine). (various references)

Norwegian

innbille seg, forestille seg (envisage). (various references)

Occitan

imaginar. (various references)

Papiamen

imahiná (fancy), imaginá (fancy), figurá (fancy). (various references)

Pig Latin

imagineay.(various references)

Polish

wyobrażać (fancy). (various references)

Portuguese

imaginar (conceit, conceive, concoct, contrive, deem, devise, dream, engineer, excogitate, expect, fable, fabricate, fancy, figure, guess, ideate, image, make believe, see, suppose, think, weave). (various references)

Romanian

imagina (conceive, devise, fancy, frame, ideate, invent, picture, think, visualize). (various references)

Romansch

imaginar (to imagine). (various references)

Russian 

представлять себе (depicture, envisage, fancy, figure to oneself, realize, visualize). (various references)

Scottish

saoil (a mark, deem, suppose, think). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamisliti (conceive, fancy, ideate, plan, see, think), zamišljati (think), uobraziti (put an idea into smb.'s head), predstaviti sebi. (various references)

Spanish

figurarse (expect, fancy, figure, suppose, think), imaginar (construct, figure, figure up, guess, suspect, think, think out, think over, think up). (various references)

Swedish

tänka sig (fancy, figure, think of), inbilla sig (delude oneself, fancy), föreställa sig (conceive, depicture, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, figure, figure to oneself, ideate, picture, see, visualize). (various references)

Thai

คิดสรุปเอาเอง, มีจินตนาการ, จินตนาการ (conceit, envisage, fancy, feature, figure, imagination, see). (various references)

Turkish

tasavvur etmek (conceive, fancy, shadow, think), sanmak (assume, conjecture, expect, fancy, flatter oneself, guess, presume, put down, repute, suppose, surmise, take, take for, think), kafasında canlandırmak (envisage, picture), hayal kurmak (day dream, dream, fancy, throw one's cap over the windmill), hayal etmek (dream, shadow), farzetmek (assume, call, deem, fancy, opine, posit, presume, reckon as, reckon for, repute, say, suppose, theorize), düşlemek (fancy), düşünmek (allow, balance, be pensive, bethink oneself, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive, consider, consult, contemplate, deliberate, envision, excogitate, fancy, figure, give a thought, give thought to, intend, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of). (various references)

Ukrainian

уявляти собі (envisage, envision, figure, ideate, prefigure, realize, see), здогадуватися (guess), подумайте, думати (deem, dream, have in mind, presume, ratiocinate, think). (various references)

Welsh

tybio (assume, suppose, think), dyfeisio (devise, guess, invent), dychmygu, bwrw (cast, shed, spend, strike, suppose, throw, woof). (various references)

Yucatec

ts'iiboltik (fancy). (various references)

arbitrabatur, arbitrabitur, arbitramini, arbitramur, arbitrans, arbitrantur, arbitrari, arbitraris, arbitrati, arbitratus, arbitrentur, arbitretur, arbitror, imaginari, opinatissimam. (various references)

asmeagan. (various references)

controver. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "imagine": imagined, imaginer, imaginers, imagines. (additional references)

Words ending with "imagine": reimagine. (additional references)

Words containing "imagine": reimagined, reimagines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Imagine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Angaine, Cimetine, emagine, ilmarinen, imadgine, imagen, imagier, Imagin, Imagina, imaginae, imagione, immagini, Inamine, indagini, limagne, magine. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aiming, enigma, gamine.

-2 letters: amine, anime, animi, gamin, genii, image, imine, mange, minae.

-3 letters: agin, amen, amie, amin, gaen, gain, game, gane, gien, inia, mage, magi, main, mane, mean, mien, mina, mine, mini, name, nema.

-4 letters: age, aim, ain, ami, ane, ani, eng, gae, gam, gan, gem, gen, gie, gin, mae, mag, man, meg.

+1 letter: emailing, imagined, imaginer, imagines, migraine.

+2 letters: bigeminal, diademing, enigmatic, examining, imaginers, magnified, magnifier, magnifies, mediating, migraines, miseating, reimagine, reimaging, remailing, remaining.

+3 letters: agrimonies, alimenting, decimating, declaiming, emaciating, emigrating, emigration, estimating, exclaiming, geminating, gemination, gentamicin, imaginable, impaneling, impeaching, impearling, impleading, magnifiers, mediagenic, medicating, meditating, melanizing, meningioma, metalising, metalizing, misaligned, misdealing, mishearing, misleading, misreading, misseating, negativism, racemizing, reclaiming, reimagined, reimagines, timesaving, trigeminal, winemaking.