imagine

Other forms of imagine

past tense

imagined·

present participle

imagining·

third person

imagines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about imagine

What does imagine mean?

imagine means "form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in imagine?

imagine has 3 syllables: im-ag-ine. The stress falls on "ag". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈmædʒən/.

What is another word for imagine?

Close synonyms include conceive of, ideate, envisage, think, opine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imagine a common word?

imagine is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.