imagine
/ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.92 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
Transitive verb
verb
Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "Or in the night, imagining ſome feare, / How eaſie is a buſh ſuppos’d a Beare?"
- "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."
Etymology
From Middle English ymagynen, from Middle French imaginer, from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
imagines (present, singular)
imagining (participle, present)
imagined (participle, past)
imagined (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
imagined (first person, past)
imaginest (archaic, present)
imagined (past, second person)
imaginedst (archaic, past)
imagineth (archaic, present)
imagined (past, singular)