Synonyms of imagining

imagining 1 of 2

noun

as in theory

Related Words

• theory
• assumption
• hypothesis
• speculation
• conjecture
• presumption
• thought
• supposition
• thesis
• concept
• presupposition
• prejudice
• conception
• predetermination
• bias
• notion
• image
• favor
• picture
• partiality
• preconception
• prejudgment
• prepossession

Dissimilar Words

• objectivity
• detachment
• neutrality
• impartiality
• open-mindedness
• unbiasedness

imagining

2 of 2

verb

present participle of imagine

1

as in envisioning

to form a mental picture of

she was determined to have the wedding that she had always imagined

Synonyms & Similar Words

• envisioning
• picturing
• seeing
• dreaming
• visualizing
• conceiving
• fantasizing
• contemplating
• envisaging
• featuring
• fancying
• planning
• visioning
• fantasying
• imaging
• conjuring (up)
• conceiting
• daydreaming
• ideating
• pondering
• reflecting
• hallucinating
• reliving
• foreseeing
• projecting
• inventing
• musing
• ruminating
• reminiscing
• concocting
• meditating
• stargazing
• re-creating
• manufacturing
• prefiguring
• fabricating
• making up

2

as in thinking

to have as an opinion

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thinking
• believing
• guessing
• considering
• figuring
• feeling
• supposing
• deeming
• conceiving
• perceiving
• judging
• holding
• assuming
• regarding
• allowing
• viewing
• reckoning
• esteeming
• accepting
• relying
• depending
• presuming
• trusting
• concluding
• inferring
• presupposing
• deducing
• surmising

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• questioning
• doubting
• suspecting
• rejecting
• distrusting
• disbelieving
• mistrusting
• discrediting

3

as in guessing

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

I imagine things will change rapidly once we begin

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guessing
• assuming
• supposing
• thinking
• suspecting
• presuming
• speculating
• conjecturing
• surmising
• believing
• suspicioning
• inferring
• deducing
• daresaying
• concluding
• hypothesizing
• expecting
• theorizing
• gathering
• conceiving
• judging
• hypothecating
• reckoning
• taking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• establishing
• proving
• documenting
• demonstrating
• determining
• learning
• validating
• ascertaining
• substantiating
• finding out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of imagining

Noun

The classical re-imagining of Mellon Collie was unveiled last November at the Lyric Opera House in Chicago. —Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2026

Full Moon isn’t all force; in Brandy’s imagining, the record would serve as an exploration of an entire relationship, and fittingly the love songs here shine. —Jackson Howard, Pitchfork, 29 Mar. 2026

Article continues below Maul is a dirtier, grungier imagining of the Star Wars universe, leaning into the darker moments of shows like The Clone Wars and Rebels. —Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026

But Love Story offers its condemnations without seeming to wonder whether a work of semi-fiction—a full-scale imagining of two people’s lives—is a paparazzo by other means. —Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026

And in unassuming buildings scattered across Los Angeles, a reiterative imagining of community theater would continue, one Thursday night at a time. —Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026

The museum’s Sunday conversation series, created in partnership with the Othering & Belonging Institute, is set to explore the topic of radical public imagining. —Anne Schrager, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2026

For contestants on Jeopardy's Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005, no imagining was needed. —Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Dec. 2025

If the poem were merely a wish that the world is like this, a pretty imagining, then to hell with it. —Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

Verb

In imagining my ideal bachelorette, there was no sash, no tiara, no phallic shot glasses. —Aemilia Madden, Vogue, 27 May 2026

My own research in the Princeton Music Cognition Lab peels back the everyday experience of imagining something while listening to music to identify a striking case of this collision between the individual and the collective. —Literary Hub, 20 May 2026

Continuously setting industry standards and re-imagining what cruise travel can be, the company manages to maintain its Dutch roots and history while keeping a firm grasp on modern travel trends. —Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

The summer travel season is here, and many people are already imagining themselves on vacation. —Lori Smith, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026

Trevor began imagining elaborate criminal schemes. —Matt Thompson, SPIN, 11 May 2026

The Boys is an American satirical dark comedy television show that flips the conventional superhero narrative on its head by imagining a society where superpowers are abused for influence and profit. —Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026

Models include a way to describe it, imagining light pressure pushing material off the star, exceeding its stable luminosity limit – what scientists call super-Eddington conditions. —Paul Sutter, Space.com, 3 May 2026

Speculative fiction like this is the key to surviving this American moment and imagining a more inclusive future for the next 250 years. —Time, 30 Apr. 2026