IMAGINING Synonyms: 122 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in theory

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verb

present participle of imagine

as in envisioning

to form a mental picture of she was determined to have the wedding that she had always imagined

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as in thinking

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

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as in guessing

to form an opinion from little or no evidence I imagine things will change rapidly once we begin

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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

Many people spend years imagining exactly what retirement will look like. — Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 The film begins with the religious question of whether young Ilyas is allowed to shave the bristles on his upper lip, leading to a consistent self-consciousness, which appears (and re-appears) as Ilyas imagining extreme close-ups of hair and skin. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026 The frontman for Evening Elephants comes often to the lowlands of Griffith Park, watching locals practice yoga and Taekwondo, while imagining new music for his alternative pop act. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 5 Aug. 2026 Diaz scouted the stadium a day before and took a test shot imagining Loria on the pitcher’s mound and a view of the interior of the stadium. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026 Abundance is committed to the progress and pluralism that are the best of cities, imagining a future of radical plenty. — Ryder Kessler, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026 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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for imagining

Noun

Their goal was to test the leading theory, first put forward in the 1980s, that turbulence — the irregular motion of air currents in the atmosphere — caused shadow bands.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Zahary emphasized that LLMs, in his experience, have been valuable in assisting humans in developing new theories or finding answers to problems.

— Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of theory

Verb

The moon is the new go-to destination in space, with NASA envisioning a stampede of robotic craft over the next several years to form the foundation for a sustainable lunar base.

— Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Several of the roads were constructed with pedestrians in mind first, envisioning the fan march from the Landing to CPKC Stadium on match days.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026

Definition of envisioning

Verb

Robbie Ray was already thinking about his next start after exiting Friday’s Padres debut after five innings of four-run ball.

— Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
RVers get creative Everyone is thinking about fuel costs these days, but that hasn’t stopped people from taking RV trips.

— Sara Hansen, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of thinking

Verb

The bot loses a point for losing to me and another for guessing in five!

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
The notion of luck is seemingly an ill fit for his new home state, where fortunes were made by guessing where to drill a hole into the ground in search of oil.

— Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of guessing

Verb

Rose is now in southeast Asia, but after picturing what customs would say, Mystic stayed back with her mother-in-law.

— Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Where to Eat and Drink The Salt Lick BBQ is likely what many out-of-state visitors imagine when picturing Central Texas-style barbecue—and its backstory is just as flavorful as its brisket.

— Kat Stinson, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2026

Definition of picturing

Verb

That run came on top of a franchise-record tying 15-game winning streak in July, fueling a dramatic turnaround that has fans believing the magic is back at the old ballpark.

— Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
But some Americans are susceptible to believing it, particularly those who came of age during the Cold War, when communism was shorthand for our gravest national threat.

— Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of believing

Verb

Founders often focus heavily on maximizing valuation, assuming that securing the highest purchase price is the primary objective.

— Amit Jain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Bloomberg claimed today that OpenAI will reveal its speaker this year and release it in 2027, assuming Apple’s lawsuit doesn’t disrupt those plans.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

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