imagine
See without eyes
Imagine is to form a mental picture of something not present or not real: Imagine yourself on a beach.
It extends to supposing or assuming: I imagine she'll be late.
The word implies creative thinking—Imagine what we could accomplish—or disbelief: Imagine that!
To say you can't imagine something is to express incomprehension or emphatic denial.
Create something new
- conceiveForm a mental notion
- designPurposeful creative planning
- craftSkilled manual art
- composeCreate or arrange
formulate · generate · originate · develop · dream up · concoct · devise · fabricate
Visual depiction of something
- envisionPicture in thought
- seePerceive with eyes
- depictRepresent through art
- visualizeForm mental pictures
render · perceive · projection · foresight · perspective · mind's eye · conjure · summon
Words introducing a hypothesis
- scenarioPostulated event sequence
- possibilityState of being achievable
- potentialLatent capacity for development
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
alternative · outcome · future · vision · aspiration · dream · hope · ambition
Accept as true
- guessEstimate without certainty
- supposeAccept as true tentatively
- presumeAccept without verification
- expectConsider likely to occur
reckon · gather · believe · figure · surmise · suspect · speculate · conjecture
Conscious fantasy while awake
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- make-believeImaginative play or fantasy
- pretendAct as though
whimsy · flight of fancy · escapism · fairytale · myth · legend · magical thinking · wishful thinking
invent
Create something new
compose · formulate · generate · originate · develop · dream up · concoct · devise · fabricate · forge
picture
Visual depiction of something
visualize · render · perceive · projection · foresight · perspective · mind's eye · conjure · summon · evoke
what if
Words introducing a hypothesis
- scenarioPostulated event sequence
- possibilityState of being achievable
- potentialLatent capacity for development
prospect · alternative · outcome · future · vision · aspiration · dream · hope · ambition · goal
assume
Accept as true
expect · reckon · gather · believe · figure · surmise · suspect · speculate · conjecture · hypothesize
daydream
Conscious fantasy while awake
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- make-believeImaginative play or fantasy
pretend · whimsy · flight of fancy · escapism · fairytale · myth · legend · magical thinking · wishful thinking · castles in the air
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, cognition, remembering
- mental processesthinking, think, reasoning, cognition, pondering
- inventinvent, devise, create, conceive, come up with
- mental verbsthink, believe, know, remember, forget
- trisyllablesanimal, banana, beautiful, camera, company
- what-ifswhat if, hypothetical, thought experiment, speculation, conjecture
imagineperceive
Become conscious of
observe · see · witness · experience · sense
- imagine thatExclamation of mild surprise
- imaginary friendsFictional companions children create
- imaginary worldsInvented settings for stories
- imaginary lineConceived but unseeable division
- imaginary numbersMultiples of i
- leave to the imaginationNot make explicit
imagination, imagined, imaginary, imagining, imaginative, imaginable, imagines, unimaginable, imaginations