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

Not always very precisely balanced between horror, homage and mystery, this intriguing if unevenly realized construct will nonetheless lure genre fans and nostalgists alike with its imagined back chapter of golden-age Hollywood. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026

Altman said earlier this week that humanity has entered the technological singularity, the long imagined point when machine intelligence begins advancing faster than people can reliably predict or direct. — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Thankfully, there’s a wonderful piece of technology called AI out there that’s perfect for realizing the juvenile aesthetic predilections of stunted creatives who want to wallow in an imagined idea of what the past was like. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 22 July 2026

In our imagined scenario in which the Chargers are an unstoppable fantasy machine in 2026, Mitchell will be cartoonishly good. — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 21 July 2026

The cannibalistic Laestrygonians become towering armored warriors, while other episodes are combined or radically re-imagined, with characters and storylines invented from whole cloth. — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

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

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

Verb

Monsieur Boucheron could hardly have imagined the evolution of high jewelry today. — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2026

Advertisement Max staggers and envisions his dead wife and imagined son again before pulling himself back to his closing argument. — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026

This isn’t exactly how George Clooney imagined this summer would go. — Alessandra De Tommasi, Vanity Fair, 31 July 2026

On the 1994 comeback album Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins, Sparks imagined Liberace, who died in 1987, making his own comeback in the afterlife, adored again as a phantom haunting the Earth. — Al Shipley, SPIN, 31 July 2026

The listeners stayed in place while the sound whipped around their ears, rather as Strnad had imagined a drama could do. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026

During her roughly eight-month life, Cinderella traveled farther than scientists might have imagined possible, more than 3,000 miles as the butterfly flies. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Nor have complex land improvements like drainage or irrigation or flood control developed in a system imagined by private-sector maximalist author Ayn Rand. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 July 2026

The 15% of us in the class of 1976 could not have imagined a school where today women fill almost half the seats. — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2026