Synonyms of imagined

imagined 1 of 2

adjective

as in imaginary

not real and existing only in the imagination

got needlessly upset about imagined dangers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imaginary
• fictional
• fictitious
• fantasied
• mythical
• imaginal
• invented
• ideal
• chimerical
• unreal
• make-believe
• phantom
• fanciful
• pretend
• notional
• fantastic
• theoretical
• visionary
• phantasmal
• unlikely
• envisioned
• made-up
• phantasmic
• hypothetical
• legendary
• fabulous
• romantic
• fabled
• envisaged
• visualized
• conceived
• abstract
• pictured
• unbelievable
• illusory
• unconvincing
• hallucinatory
• concocted
• deceptive
• fictive
• delusive
• feigned
• nonexistent
• delusional
• phantasmagoric
• fabricated
• daydreamlike
• inexistent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• actual
• real
• true
• existing
• genuine
• existent
• authentic
• realistic
• factual
• physical
• convincing
• believable
• verifiable
• substantial
• tangible
• solid
• corporeal
• material
• palpable
• verified

imagined

2 of 2

verb

past tense of imagine

1

as in envisioned

to form a mental picture of

she was determined to have the wedding that she had always imagined

Synonyms & Similar Words

• envisioned
• dreamed
• pictured
• saw
• conceived
• envisaged
• fantasized
• visualized
• visioned
• contemplated
• fancied
• featured
• planned
• fantasied
• imaged
• conceited
• conjured (up)
• daydreamed
• ideated
• reflected
• pondered
• mused
• relived
• foresaw
• hallucinated
• invented
• reminisced
• projected
• concocted
• ruminated
• meditated
• manufactured
• prefigured
• stargazed
• made up
• re-created
• fabricated

2

as in thought

to have as an opinion

I imagine that's true, but you still have to prove it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thought
• believed
• guessed
• considered
• felt
• figured
• supposed
• deemed
• conceived
• perceived
• judged
• assumed
• reckoned
• held
• allowed
• esteemed
• viewed
• regarded
• accepted
• presumed
• relied
• surmised
• depended
• trusted
• concluded
• deduced
• presupposed
• inferred

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suspected
• doubted
• questioned
• rejected
• distrusted
• mistrusted
• discredited
• disbelieved

3

as in guessed

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

I imagine things will change rapidly once we begin

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guessed
• assumed
• thought
• supposed
• suspected
• presumed
• surmised
• speculated
• conjectured
• believed
• suspicioned
• expected
• concluded
• daresaid
• inferred
• deduced
• hypothesized
• theorized
• gathered
• conceived
• judged
• reckoned
• hypothecated
• took

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• established
• proved
• demonstrated
• documented
• determined
• learned
• validated
• ascertained
• substantiated
• found out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of imagined

Adjective

The images and physics of the imagined world around them is added in later. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 26 June 2026

Wealth and social rank, once near the top of any imagined list, have slipped quietly down the rankings. — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026

That is, real, not merely illusory, measures, so that the allure to breach peace for imagined gains is overshadowed. — Keith Tidman, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2026

The vivid depiction of the shame and horror attendant on an imagined German invasion promoted conservative military goals. — Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026

What starts as your typical Meisner-esque curriculum of channeling your own inner experience to project a deeper truth in an imagined setting settles into much more sinister. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 June 2026

The humanities will survive not by defending an imagined past of disinterested purity, but by demonstrating their necessity in a fractured republic. — The Atlantic, 16 June 2026

Community and identity were two central lines of inquiry at this stage, followed by economic implications and the imagined construction of cyberspace, its design, and visual representation. — Paulo Nuno Vicenteall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026

By telling a relatively straightforward story that blends real people from the era of the Gotti Mafia family with imagined characters, Martin Scorsese's dramedy biopic about a kid who falls in love with the gangster life is as even-keeled as anything the director has made. — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026

Verb

The tools now entering those classrooms are more powerful and far less accountable than anyone writing that legislation could have imagined. — Masha Pearl, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026

The men who signed that document could not have imagined artificial intelligence, quantum computing or cyberspace. — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Whatever juju, imagined or self-made, permeating throughout the Braves’ roster over the last few weeks was exorcised Wednesday. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 2 July 2026

Filmed in Technicolor, its visual effects were truly groundbreaking, as the movie imagined alien terrors that, before then, had only been possible on the page or on radio. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 4 July 2026

Contreras has always been an overheating boiler of a ballplayer, with a history of arguing with umpires, throwing bats and helmets, and willing to charge the mound over any slight, real or imagined. — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 July 2026

But the downtown Miami’s skyline has erupted with the rise of multimillion dollar condo towers that we couldn’t have been imagined on Biscayne Boulevard 50 years ago. — Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

Black Detroiters living in an economically depressed 1980s Detroit imagined a sonic future that was inclusive and equitable. — Carla Vecchiola, The Conversation, 26 June 2026

The detailed sketch echoed Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which transformed how the world imagined the deep via fiction’s most famous submarine, Captain Nemo’s Nautilus. — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026