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Definition of imagining : of Imagine

Synonyms:

fantasizing, supposing, brainstorming, inventing, observing, creating, theorizing, designing, planning, opining, perceiving, conceiving

guessing, philosophizing, prophesying, hypothesizing, conjecturing

considering, speculating, brooding, debating, daydreaming, reasoning, concentrating, calculating, pondering, analyzing, meditating, deliberating, evaluating, appraising, weighing, studying, musing, thinking, envisioning, cogitating, cerebrating, reflecting, contemplating

forming, prototyping, shaping, modeling, figuring

dreading, assuming, foreseeing, foreknowing, awaiting, apprehending, inferring, foreboding, presuming, presupposing, surmising, suspecting, deducing, expecting, envisaging, anticipating, gathering

Usage examples:

• " Now don't you go imagining things, Jane, my dear. - "The Golden Scarecrow", Hugh Walpole.
• Of course, they'd be just as safe with you as with me, but I'd keep imagining every minute that something had happened." - "Virginia", Ellen Glasgow.
• And why should we deny ourselves here the pleasure of imagining Miss Browning at these pleasant ceremonies, as Mrs Bronson describes her, wearing " beautiful gowns of rich and sombre tints, and appearing each day in a different and most dainty French cap and quaint antique jewels"? - "Robert Browning", Edward Dowden.