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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To form a mental picture or image of.
  2. v. To think; conjecture: I imagine you're right.
  3. v. To have a notion of or about without adequate foundation; fancy: She imagines herself to be a true artist.
  4. v. To employ the imagination.
  5. v. To make a guess; conjecture.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To form a mental image of; produce by the imagination; especially, to construct by the productive imagination.
  2. To conceive in the mind; suppose; conjecture.
  3. To contrive in purpose; scheme; devise.
  4. = Syn. 1 and 2. Surmise, Guess, etc. (see conjecture), fancy, picture to one's self, apprehend, believe, suppose, deem. —3. To plan, frame. scheme.
  5. To form images or conceptions; exercise imagination.
  6. To suppose; fancy; think.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
  2. v. transitive To believe in something created by one's own mind.
  3. v. transitive To assume.
  4. v. transitive To conjecture or guess.
  5. v. intransitive To use one's imagination.
  6. v. intransitive To guess or conjecture.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
  2. v. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.
  3. v. To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.
  4. v. To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
  5. v. To think; to suppose.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. expect, believe, or suppose
  2. v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

Etymologies

  1. Old French imaginer, from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō ("a copy, likeness, image"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English imaginen, from Old French imaginer, from Latin imāginārī, from imāgō, imāgin-, image. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (23)

Words with the same meaning

  1. suppose
  2. think
  3. fancy
  4. scheme
  1. plan
  2. devise
  3. deem
  4. opine
  1. believe
  2. conceive
  3. apprehend
  4. create
  1. feign
  2. fantasy
  3. picture
  4. figure
  1. prefigure
  2. dream
  3. framed
  4. chimerize
  1. guess
  2. assume
  3. pretend

reverse dictionary (57)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. figure
  2. picture
  3. prefigure
  4. project
  5. see
  6. suspect
  7. think
  8. image
  9. visualise
  10. visualize
  11. envision
  1. fancy
  2. foresee
  3. dream
  4. fantasy
  5. conjecture
  6. disimagine
  7. feign
  8. fancify
  9. imagination
  10. guess
  11. calenture
  1. mare's-nest
  2. megalomania
  3. contrive
  4. unthinkable
  5. ideate
  6. variegated
  7. compass
  8. conceit
  9. conceive
  10. devise
  11. foreconceive
  1. mind's eye
  2. fantasize
  3. give
  4. valence
  5. surmise
  6. conjure
  7. endow
  8. feature
  9. suppose
  10. imagine
  11. ween
  1. shape
  2. suspicious
  3. wis
  4. apprehend
  5. bethink
  6. delusion
  7. hope
  8. read
  9. secondary
  10. seem
  11. organization
  1. tactual-verbal
  2. verbal-motor

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  1. memory
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  1. stative

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  • hernesheir Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for "How soon can you obtain the information?" --US Railroad Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 25, 2013

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