Entry Word: imagine

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to form a mental picture of <she imagined meeting the members of her favorite rock band face-to-face>

Synonyms conceive, dream, envisage, fancy, picture, vision, visualize

Related Words daydream, stargaze; hallucinate; reflect, relive, reminisce; contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate; concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project

2 to have as an opinion <I imagine thatʼs true, but you still have to prove it> — see believe 2