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

At 81 years old, Harrison reaches new heights of his celebrated literary career with this fabular imagining of the apocalypse. — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026

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

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

Verb

Maybe that difficulty in imagining the sport’s death, like imagining the end of capitalism, comes from living in the present. — Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

The movement was organized around imagining how stillness could operate according to human rights policies. — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

The 10-year-old who started The Cote News isn’t ready to stop seeing a blank page and imagining how to fill it with the right words, with stories, with humor and with heart. — Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026

So begins this week’s short story, about a woman who can’t stop imagining her dad having sex with a wild mustang. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026

Essentially, Hazelwood first wrote the novel as a fanfiction imagining a relationship between Star Wars sequel trilogy characters Kylo Ren and Rey. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026

Musgraves found comfort in imagining Parton reuniting with her husband, Carl Dean, who died in March 2025. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2026

There's impressive attention to detail throughout, whether the show is imagining elaborate crop circles, or recreating 1960s fashions, cars, and backdrops. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2026

And more compelling still is imagining what the space around it might eventually look like and contain. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026