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

In Groff’s imagining, the real figure of Marie de France is a gangly teenager exiled by her lover, Eleanor of Aquitaine, to oversee a dreary English abbey sometime during the 12th century. — David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026

Drawing has long been regarded as an intellectual activity, something generated, above all, by the mind, with its capacity for conceiving, imagining, and mandating. — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026

In Whitehead’s hands, that imagining takes us through both time and place while making visceral the horrors of enslavement. — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

More importantly, her imagining of Little House on the Prairie isn’t designed to be a look at the past but more about its parallels with our present. — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2026

The process of imagining, crafting and playing has become just as important as the finished structures themselves. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

Like the assignment by the man’s most brilliant student or the Oedipus trilogy, which was performed in Athens’s outdoor theaters in the fifth century BCE, Helen of Nowhere will end up transforming the man at its center beyond his imagining. — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026

This 1787 imagining, by architect and designer Felice Soave and Giocondo Albertolli, was the setting for a love affair between Giuditta Cantù Turino, the frescoist Appiano’s great-niece, and Vincenzo Bellini, Italy’s most romantic and melodramatic operatic composer. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

The most tangible example is the Magic Pointer, a re-imagining of the cursor. — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

Verb

There are a lot of entry points to it and there's almost a theatrical tradition to it where people keep reinterpreting and re-imagining her story. — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026

Also in Toronto, Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder pulls a similar trick, re-imagining the late Patricia Highsmith as a scheming host played by Helen Mirren. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2026

Many of the new initiatives, from Talisman to Wonders, are centered on re-imagining the charms and personal storytelling Pandora is known for. — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2026

This is matched by fantasy sequences imagining Musk as a character in a first-person video game, which many critics here call — and this is a technical term — pretty annoying. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

Like James himself, the men are clever and bookish, writing letters or diaries, reading voraciously, and imagining themselves into tales of romance and Biblical comeuppance. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Companies are imagining what AI might make possible, and making moves before fully understanding how to get there. — Maria Colacurcio, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

What is sort of funny is imagining how immersion in the city’s cultural scene fits into Vanderbilt’s broader ambitions. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2026

Musgraves found a silver lining while imagining Parton reuniting with her husband, Carl Dean, who died in March 2025 at 82. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2026