imagine

I

(Roget's IV) v.

1. [To visualize mentally]

Syn. conceive, picture, conjure up, envisage, envision, see in one's mind, invent, fabricate, formulate, devise, think of, make up, conceptualize, dream, nurture, harbor, perceive, fancy, dramatize, pictorialize, image, figure to oneself, create, build castles in the air*; see also visualize .

2. [To suppose]

Syn. think, guess, presume, believe; see assume 1 .

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.

1. picture think of, fantasize, conceive, visualize, envision, conceptualize, dream, invent, fancy, create, conjure up.

2. assume believe, think, deduce, expect, conjecture, suspect, infer, surmise, suppose, guess.

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To form mental images of: conceive, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, image, picture, see, think, vision, visualize. Informal: feature. See THOUGHTS.