IMAGINES Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

imagines

verb

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 One imagines Dahl, whose sometimes monstrous characters captured childhood in all its messiness, would be relieved. — Alison Herman, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026 This film—which just made its Canadian debut at TIFF—imagines the Dostoevskys on their honeymoon. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2026 The book imagines a dystopian American wasteland where pregnant women are surveilled and controlled. — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Zvyagintsev’s story, like Chabrol’s, imagines the tragic fallout of a husband discovering his wife’s infidelity. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026 At the end, a segment imagines Rosso in 2255, with humanity living on a distant world ruled by AI. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 Through the eyes of a new generation searching for its place, Burgundy opens the doors to a world rarely seen from within, and then imagines its way further inside. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026 The musical imagines Seurat’s creation of the famed painting and his relationship with his lover and muse, Dot, before jumping forward a century in its second act. — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 The Komlós conjecture imagines each person (or object) as an arrow of length 1 called a unit vector. — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026

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Lucaj also envisions the store as a connection between New York and Paris café culture, and has partnered with nearby La Perle, commissioning a custom mural and creating a bespoke coffee experience as part of integrating into the neighborhood.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
After a period of over-the-limit warming, the new strategy envisions getting back below the limit by ending fossil fuel use and developing some kind of way to suck industries' carbon dioxide out of the air.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of envisions

Verb

Surely, The New York Times suggests in its review of the book, Green sees himself in Juniper’s need to be taken seriously as an adult.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
Naish looks at that long curved snout and sees an ibis, one of the wading birds with a slender downcurved bill.

— Niranjana Rajalakshmi, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of sees

Verb

That should worry anyone who believes that enforcement ought to focus on actual threats to public safety.

— Don Bacon, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2026
The organization believes some of these conversations and disagreements among board members are drawing time and attention away from students, many of whom are Hispanic and come from Spanish-speaking backgrounds.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of believes

Verb

Logan Wright, the author of Broken China, guesses that growth is now running at no more than 1% — and may even be zero.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
The system consists of a predictive algorithm that guesses how a robot is broken, along with robotic manipulators that actually take the broken robot apart.

— Kohava Mendelsohn, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of guesses

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Its founder, Fabrizio Di Amato, conceives it not as a hotel brand in the conventional sense but as the beginning of a wider world—a connected collection of destinations where Italian hospitality, design and culture merge.

— Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 21 June 2026
Isaac prays to God on her behalf, God answers the prayer, and Rebekah conceives.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of conceives

Verb

When Bender considers moving to a rival network, Wever fleshes out the tough carapace of a woman who, even under the thorniest of circumstances, never stops calculating her next move.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
Warsaw now wants the European Union to allow similar suspensions during migration emergencies, as the bloc considers a framework that could loosen standard asylum procedures.

— Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

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