IMAGINES Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

imagines

verb

Definition of imagines next

present tense third-person singular of imagine

as in envisions

to form a mental picture of she was determined to have the wedding that she had always imagined

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as in thinks

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

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as in assumes

to form an opinion from little or no evidence I imagine things will change rapidly once we begin

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Recent Examples of imagines There’s probably a smart, chilling film to be made about the terrors of smothering and relentless adoration — one imagines what Rod Serling would have done with something like this — but this isn’t really that film. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 2026 Near the end of the piece, Amodei imagines a scenario in which AI has rendered the current economic system irrelevant. —

Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026 Nagi, as Fukada imagines it, is empty but filled with voices — voices that are easily heard from every house in the area but seldom backed up by any kind of direct address. —

David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026 Featuring aching, ferocious performances from Emmy winners Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, Camp Miasma imagines the resurrection of a dormant slasher franchise. —

David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026 One tweet features an AI cover of a fake Slayr album called BURGERMAN that imagines him as a half-burger, half-human hybrid engulfed in a hellish flood of grease and cheese splatter. —

Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026 In the year 2027 (which is somehow just one year from now, please stop, passage of time), Children of Men imagines a world where women have been infertile for years, dooming humanity to a slow extinction. —

Grace Dean, Space.com, 2 May 2026 One imagines Parayko succeeding as the stay-at-home player alongside Morrissey. —

Murat Ates, New York Times, 1 May 2026 The Other Bennet Sister BritBox, May 6 Hadlow’s continuation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice imagines the fortunes of Mary Bennet, aka the boring (though not entirely ignored) one. —

Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026

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That disconnect between what a person envisions and what their phone actually records, eventually became the founding thesis behind WayShot.

— Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Star Catcher envisions its power-node system as complementing nuclear generators rather than supplanting them, according to Rush.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 12 May 2026