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 companies that continue to solve for an imagined version of their consumer will lose to the companies solving for the real one. — Sam Peskin, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026

Brand, ⁠once ‌one of Britain’s most high-profile ‌broadcasters and the ‌former husband of ⁠singer Katy Perry, had denied the accusations, saying the incidents ‌had either ​been ‌consensual, reinvented ⁠or re-imagined. — Adela Suliman, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026

For Gone With the Wind, the industry glorified an imagined past; for Barbie, Hollywood toasted an imagined future. — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026

Why would animals add imagined experiences to the business of sleeping? — New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026

The obsessive pursuit of real and imagined enemies is constant as the Department of Justice lawyers file criminal complaints with frivolous and manufactured issues. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Oct. 2026

These visualizations allow participants to experiment with different imagined speaking patterns and identify those that produce stronger neural activity, potentially helping improve speech-decoding performance. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026

The second scenario in the speculative design research is built around an imagined service called Paren’t, which proposes to preserve a parent’s AI-powered postmortem presence for their child. — Lissa Soep, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026

Drawn to the tactile and familiar qualities of paper, Teo uses playful forms and visual metaphors to transform everyday subjects and construct whimsical, imagined worlds. — New York Times Games, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Verb

Saturday Night Live host, actor and comedian Druski starred in a sketch that imagined a prelude to You Can See Everything, the metadocumentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026

Her parents could never have imagined on February 27, 1932, just how much their newborn baby would achieve artistically. — Estrella Albendea Ruiz, Vanity Fair, 7 Nov. 2026

Brown's career started as well as anyone could have imagined, as the former sixth-round-pick from Central Michigan went from fighting to earn a roster spot to becoming one of the most prolific wide receivers in Pittsburgh franchise history. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Once victims are imagined as near-saints, those who fail to meet the template can start to look suspect. — Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026

West initially imagined his look through the imagery of the early papacy—particularly the period when the papal court moved from Rome to Avignon. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026

Some of the storylines are imagined based on the author’s works, including this opening battle sequence. — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Both the women and men sound like they have been imagined by men for men. — New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2026

The roundtables definitely felt way more intense than I’d imagined and go on for a lot longer. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 31 Oct. 2026