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

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

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

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

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

Verb

For too long, conversations about Africa and aerospace have begun with what the continent supposedly lacks, while African women have been imagined as spectators or beneficiaries instead of astronauts and engineers. — Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026

Whether real or imagined, the stigma is there, making this particular crisis one that Taco Bell needs to address in full force. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 July 2026

As noted by Variety, some scholars believe the island inspired the location where Homer imagined Odysseus and his crew stopping to roast goats and replenish their supplies. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026

But Henry Alford has imagined an even epic-er version of the poem. — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Pissenem imagined a daytime beach club that catered to older ravers who could afford VIP beds and younger tourists who wanted to dance in the sand. — Max Marshall, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026

With this premise, Brandl brews a heady, destabilizing concoction of uncanny horror and bone-dry humor to depict a man on the brink, whose demons—whether real or imagined—just might be catching up with him. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026

For example, Nolan imagined an alarm system for Troy with its citizens banging sheets of metal that would get louder as the Greek threat became more urgent. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 July 2026

The greatest scientific value of a specimen often comes decades later, when researchers ask new questions and apply new technologies that earlier generations never imagined. — Kristi Curry Rogers, The Conversation, 14 July 2026