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imagine

verbnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • New Zealand//ɘˈmɛd͡ʒ.ɘn//
  • //ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn//
  • //əˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn//

To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

verb

  1. 1

    To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

    Try to imagine a pink elephant.

    Imagine yourself in a packed airport lounge.

    Imagine sitting on a tropical beach with a cool mimosa.

    Imagine all the people / Livin' life in peace

  2. 2

    To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.

    She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.

    There's nothing there; you're just imagining things.

  3. 3

    To assume; to suppose.

    I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.

  4. 4

    To conjecture; to guess.

    I cannot even imagine what you are up to!

    The board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25%

  5. 5

    To use one's imagination.

    Imagine that we were siblings.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.

    How long wil ye imagine miſchiefe againſt a man?

  7. 7

    Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.

    Imagine thinking that would work.

Etymology

From Middle English ymagynen, from Middle French imaginer, from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”).

noun

  1. 1

    slangA short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity.

    Some imagines are more sexual and creepy than others: "Imagine Stiles walking in on you giving Scott a blowjob."

    i personally like imagines and fanfics so i found a good amount of kylo ren x reader fics and started going through them.

    If I get inspired immediately, I can bust out an imagine in 5-10 minutes.

Forms

plural
imagines
past tense
imagined
past participle
imagined
present participle
imagining
third person singular
imagines
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).