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

Johnson plays Monroe at the height of her fame while Burstyn stars as an imagined version of Monroe later in life. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

And this year’s menu reflects some through-the-years favorites, including some that have been re-imagined. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026

Excess doorways were removed and replaced with new casework—the removal of some doorways allowed some spaces to be re-imagined, creating reading nooks or quiet collaboration spaces. — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

The thing is, whale songs are not necessarily about death, but about loss of identity — as an imagined mother, as a person with hopes for what life may hold. — Caroline Cherston, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026

An imagined 2014 case involving State Farm was cited to convince a judge that the company was, ultimately, not responsible for covering all the damage to the plaintiff’s home. — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Anemoia is essentially an imagined memory, a longing built from movies, photographs, and secondhand stories rather than lived experience. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026

The transition from republic to autocracy is narrated through (imagined) letters and journals of his closest advisors, friends, and family. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

Over the course of 13 test flights, SpaceX has attempted to fly Starship along roughly the same suborbital path, while the company has tweaked, re-imagined and designed around various issues that have emerged throughout the flight campaign. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026

Verb

Few could have imagined then, just how far women’s boxing would travel, carried high on Taylor’s shoulders, over the next 17 years. — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

The conceit — Monroe imagined at the century mark, walking into an audition and finally allowed to speak her mind — arrived nearly whole. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

At Crystal Bridges, however, the house is considered within a wider continuum of American art — connecting what came out of the country’s ground with what its artists and designers imagined from it. — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026

The yacht is imagined with four 1,000 hp Volvo Penta engines that could enable a cruising speed of 27 knots and a top speed of 32 knots, according to the studio. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2026

From the beginning, some Jews imagined Yiddish as a Jewish lingua franca, a common language. — Ilan Stavans, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

The tall, slender Berry imagined, chronicled and lived out his vision of a self-sustaining community in which no one had to ask where their food came from or the names of their neighbors. — ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026

Layers are everywhere in 2026, but this time the haircut is being imagined as less edgy and a bit softer—more flowing, more subtle. — Lucy Binder, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2026

From the outset of the original life-size Gundam project, this has turned into something far greater than was initially imagined. — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026