fancy suggests an imagining often unrestrained by reality but spurred by desires.
fancied himself a super athlete
realize stresses a grasping of the significance of what is conceived or imagined.
realized the enormity of the task ahead
envisage and envision imply a conceiving or imagining that is especially clear or detailed.
envisaged a totally computerized operation
envisioned a cure for the disease
Examples of imagine in a Sentence
a writer who has imagined an entire world of amazing creatures
He asked us to imagine a world without poverty or war.
It's hard for me to imagine having children.
He was imagining all sorts of terrible things happening.
“What was that sound? I think there's someone in the house!” “Oh, you're just imagining things.”
I imagine it will snow at some point today.
It's difficult to imagine that these changes will really be effective.
The company will do better next year, I imagine.
It was worse than they had imagined.
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In a visual narrative medium (a play, a film, a TV show) everything a character thinks, feels, believes, remembers, imagines, the audience must infer from what the actor is doing with body and face and voice.—Benjamin Hale
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025 But why should God be imagined as human—heavens, dogs are nobler creatures, to say nothing of whales
or oak trees—and why as a man?—Campbell McGrath, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 Gerstle always tries to tease out how someone imagines using their outdoor space over the long term, and create a full design plan that incorporates each area.—Lexi Dwyer, Architectural Digest, 23 June 2025 Like the billionaires and their sci-fi dream weavers, Adam is using outer space to imagine alternative forms of human relation.—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for imagine
Word History
Etymology
Middle English ymagynen, borrowed from Anglo-French ymaginer, borrowed from Latin imāginārī, verbal derivative of imāgin-, imāgō "representation, semblance, image entry 1"
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