Synonyms of imagined

imagined 1 of 2

adjective

as in imaginary

not real and existing only in the imagination

got needlessly upset about imagined dangers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imaginary
• fictional
• fictitious
• fantasied
• mythical
• imaginal
• invented
• ideal
• chimerical
• unreal
• make-believe
• phantom
• fanciful
• pretend
• notional
• fantastic
• theoretical
• visionary
• phantasmal
• unlikely
• envisioned
• made-up
• phantasmic
• hypothetical
• legendary
• fabulous
• romantic
• fabled
• envisaged
• visualized
• conceived
• abstract
• pictured
• unbelievable
• illusory
• unconvincing
• hallucinatory
• concocted
• deceptive
• fictive
• delusive
• feigned
• nonexistent
• delusional
• phantasmagoric
• fabricated
• daydreamlike
• inexistent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• actual
• real
• true
• existing
• genuine
• existent
• authentic
• realistic
• factual
• physical
• convincing
• believable
• verifiable
• substantial
• tangible
• solid
• corporeal
• material
• palpable
• verified

imagined

2 of 2

verb

past tense of imagine

1

as in envisioned

to form a mental picture of

she was determined to have the wedding that she had always imagined

Synonyms & Similar Words

• envisioned
• dreamed
• pictured
• saw
• conceived
• envisaged
• fantasized
• visualized
• visioned
• contemplated
• fancied
• featured
• planned
• fantasied
• imaged
• conceited
• conjured (up)
• daydreamed
• ideated
• reflected
• pondered
• mused
• relived
• foresaw
• hallucinated
• invented
• reminisced
• projected
• concocted
• ruminated
• meditated
• manufactured
• prefigured
• stargazed
• made up
• re-created
• fabricated

2

as in thought

to have as an opinion

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thought
• believed
• guessed
• considered
• felt
• figured
• supposed
• deemed
• conceived
• perceived
• judged
• assumed
• reckoned
• held
• allowed
• esteemed
• viewed
• regarded
• accepted
• presumed
• relied
• surmised
• depended
• trusted
• concluded
• deduced
• presupposed
• inferred

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suspected
• doubted
• questioned
• rejected
• distrusted
• mistrusted
• discredited
• disbelieved

3

as in guessed

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

I imagine things will change rapidly once we begin

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guessed
• assumed
• thought
• supposed
• suspected
• presumed
• surmised
• speculated
• conjectured
• believed
• suspicioned
• expected
• concluded
• daresaid
• inferred
• deduced
• hypothesized
• theorized
• gathered
• conceived
• judged
• reckoned
• hypothecated
• took

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• established
• proved
• demonstrated
• documented
• determined
• learned
• validated
• ascertained
• substantiated
• found out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of imagined

Adjective

Then, a shift to the imagined world. —Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026

But, this specific adaptation could be equally advantaged by presenting an imagined hell within our lesser, present one. —Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2026

Imagine Communities Audience–media relations also cement the notion of imagined community of viewers of that certain program. —Shepherd Mpofu, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026

Though the two are poised to be forever tied and compared to one another based on the stunning trade and public relations meltdown that occurred afterwards, neither rookie appeared interested in playing into any sort of imagined feud. —Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2026

But his family takes Iván in as his experiences begin to dissolve into the imagined portrait of Celestino. —John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026

Instead of small neighborhood stores with limited inventory, Marcus and Blank imagined warehouse-sized spaces filled with everything homeowners or contractors might need — from lumber and drywall to appliances and lighting. —Alexandria Mansfield, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

Piech’s experience suggests that Sora videos could activate spatial memory, meaning that Sora videos also tripped up the brain’s more fundamental systems for sorting real from imagined. —Tim Requarth, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2026

Some version of this happens in all your books—an imagined future opens up new possibilities in the present. —Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026

Verb

Thus the god of the clan, the totemic principle, can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined. —Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026

Fire changed human habitation in ways our ancestors could hardly have imagined. —Literary Hub, 1 May 2026

The 22-10 Braves couldn’t have imagined a much better start. —Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 1 May 2026

What started as a simple idea tied to her age has grown into something far bigger than her family ever imagined. —Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026

These might seem like separate systems, and therefore different from the kind of centralized panopticon imagined in the pulp sci-fi our parents might have read. —Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 29 Apr. 2026

And here in Florida, that verdict arrives every day — in the rumble of moving trucks, in the new neighbors from up north, and in the quiet realization that the people paying the bills were never nearly as trapped as the politicians imagined. —Larry Clifton, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026

While Katy Perry imagined her dress with a gothic, futuristic accent, Emma Watson interpreted the theme by wearing a dress made of water bottles. —Blanche Marcel, Vanity Fair, 27 Apr. 2026

In reality, many Americans imagined the new nation to be a Protestant country. —David Mislin, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026