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 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

Parsons was already deeply enmeshed in imagining, and visualizing, strange new worlds online. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026

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

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

Verb

Books are now asked to function simultaneously as texts and as lifestyle objects, and designers are now tasked with imagining multiple scales of reach simultaneously, from the bookstore table to the phone screen. — Madelyn Johnson, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

Rehearsing forgiveness, even by just imagining it, builds a self-awareness muscle whose payoff reaches well past any single grievance, at work or anywhere else life hands you one. — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

In a closing monologue, Odysseus looks ahead to the collapse of the Bronze Age, imagining a future in which his world and everything that happened to him will be forgotten. — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

There’s something thrilling about standing on the battleground that led to a turning point in the American Civil War, or imagining Abraham Lincoln delivering his famous Gettysburg Address to war-weary soldiers. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2026

And although White died in 2021 at age 99, Bertinelli says her presence continues to be felt, imagining exactly what her friend would have done as a guest on the pod. — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026

Not quite even for hardcore devotees of his deep cuts, given his penchant for re-imagining and genre-bending his back catalogue during live performances. — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 7 July 2026

Hyo and his fellow producers began by scouting manga artists over social media and commissioning some 200 pieces of concept art imagining the Vapor’s possible forms. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026

With this in mind, NATO ran an exercise in June imagining drones detonating as a ship enters the port. — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026