Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To form a mental picture or image of.
- v. To think; conjecture: I imagine you're right.
- v. To have a notion of or about without adequate foundation; fancy: She imagines herself to be a true artist.
- v. To employ the imagination.
- v. To make a guess; conjecture.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To form a mental image of; produce by the imagination; especially, to construct by the productive imagination.
- To conceive in the mind; suppose; conjecture.
- To contrive in purpose; scheme; devise.
- = Syn. 1 and 2. Surmise, Guess, etc. (see conjecture), fancy, picture to one's self, apprehend, believe, suppose, deem. —3. To plan, frame. scheme.
- To form images or conceptions; exercise imagination.
- To suppose; fancy; think.
Wiktionary
- v. To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
- v. To believe in something created by one's own mind.
- v. To assume.
- v. To conjecture or guess.
- v. To use one's imagination.
- v. To guess or conjecture.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
- v. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.
- v. To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.
- v. To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
- v. To think; to suppose.
WordNet 3.0
- v. expect, believe, or suppose
- v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
Etymologies
- Middle English imaginen, from Old French imaginer, from Latin imāginārī, from imāgō, imāgin-, image; see aim- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Simply because in the first case you imagine that it is easy to go to the end of this plank, while in the second case you _imagine_ that you _cannot_ do so.”
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“I noticed a sign advertising some kind of jalapeno burger with the words "sezur na ostro" which I can only imagine is Polish for blow your bowels up.”
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“The only thing you can imagine is that he was talking about how big the monuments are?”
“David, as you can imagine, is unimpressed with this state of affairs, but still doing really rather well.”
“Now all I can imagine is this scene revised for contemporary times, in which our heroes are fined for illegal consumption of alcohol, fishing without a license, and probably a trespassing charge thrown in for good measure.”
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“All I can imagine is that she was absolutely, positively proper not to play into any televised escalation that would not be to her benefit, but might be to ABC's.”
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“Whiteness in those towels I would imagine is a mask.”
“Accept for her rather ... post-modern garb, that's like exactly as I imagine from the book.”
“The stryker scene, I imagine is in every print, to keep you interested.”
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“Perhaps equally difficult to imagine is being within a few blocks or or a couple miles of Ground Zero and surviving to escape the city — to go to Nagasaki, which would be struck by an even larger weapon three days later, and once again survive.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘imagine’.
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Not in the Periodic Table
Words that sound like they might be the names of elements of the periodic table, but that aren't. Many of the words listed here were actually proposed as names for substances their creators thought...
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a beginners' list
a beginner's list should be about novices and all those that start on new journeys
noob, beginner, new, left foot, threshold, dawn, start, go, adventurer, undeterred, brave, foolish and 61 more...
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Words That Sell Snake Oil
Trying to sell an overpriced e-book that will communicate the true secrets of wealth, power, or yard-care? Here are some helpful words to sprinkle in your copy.
sensational, expertise, secrets, guaranteed, success, legitimate, conclusive, amazing, smart, free, easy, automatic and 17 more...
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Verbs
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[Open] Stative Verbs
Definition Many of these can also be dynamic.
Please just list bare infinitives to keep the list wieldy. Perhaps a tag (e.g., “stative”) would be sufficient for participles.)act, amaze, appear, appreciate, astonish, become, believe, belong, cost, feel, get, hate and 53 more...

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