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 Unsettlingly directed by Donald Cammell, this adaptation of Dean Koontz’s 1973 novel of the same name imagines a smart home years before Nest, Ring, Roomba, and other devices become commonplace. —

Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026 In his first feature, Kiluanji Kia Henda imagines the return of Marxism to Angola through public debate, urban interventions and personal stories. —

Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026 No one imagines me in that role. —

Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026 Bret Easton Ellis’s hallucinatory satire of the 1990s fashion world imagines celebrity culture metastasizing into something far darker. —

Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026 Aquarius Neptune in Aquarius imagines the future. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026 Weed imagines the home’s spirit as a 19th-century woman in a long dress—and not a particularly happy one. —

Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 2 Apr. 2026 Given the remarkable radiation tolerance displayed by the molds discovered at Chernobyl, fungi might also provide radiation shielding — Maurer imagines growing thin layers of them inside the inflated buildings to shield the astronauts living within. —

Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 Though the world imagines this Riviera village as a non-stop hedonistic playground for the wealthy, the enduring myth of Bardot-era glamour has little to do with the daily life of its roughly 4,000 permanent residents. —

Lanie Goodman, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026

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Instead, Moonshot envisions shooting raw materials in orbit for in-space manufacturing.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
The dashboard, as Restler envisions it, would allow parents and the broader public to look up their school bus route or bus company to better understand how their vendor is performing.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026