IMAGINED Synonyms: 158 Similar and Opposite Words

imagined 1 of 2

adjective

as in imaginary

not real and existing only in the imagination got needlessly upset about imagined dangers

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imagined

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verb

past tense of imagine

as in envisioned

to form a mental picture of she was determined to have the wedding that she had always imagined

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as in thought

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

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as in guessed

to form an opinion from little or no evidence I imagine things will change rapidly once we begin

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Recent Examples of imagined

Adjective

The second scenario in the speculative design research is built around an imagined service called Paren’t, which proposes to preserve a parent’s AI-powered postmortem presence for their child. — Lissa Soep, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026 Drawn to the tactile and familiar qualities of paper, Teo uses playful forms and visual metaphors to transform everyday subjects and construct whimsical, imagined worlds. — New York Times Games, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 The production was full of nostalgia for an imagined past when the small screen was more ascendant and apolitical, with tributes to Charlie’s Angels and Dolly Parton shirking any embrace of the form’s progressive history. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026 The summer before, so many Black men and Black children and Black women had been murdered for the most meager of real or imagined offenses. — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026 Recipe development can be a self-effacing task, obliging the writer to anticipate the appetites and routines of her imagined reader. — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 Johnson plays Monroe at the height of her fame while Burstyn stars as an imagined version of Monroe later in life. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026 And this year’s menu reflects some through-the-years favorites, including some that have been re-imagined. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026 The thing is, whale songs are not necessarily about death, but about loss of identity — as an imagined mother, as a person with hopes for what life may hold. — Caroline Cherston, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026

Verb

The sense that a resume goes straight into a black box isn’t imagined – applications per job have more than doubled since 2022, and the average company now has 56% fewer recruiters to review them. — Owen Humphries, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 Diego ended up being far more involved in the delivery than either of them ever imagined. — Robbie Owens, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 The future imagined in Gundam is now reality thanks to Unitree. — Amanda Loudin, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Americans cast English severity as evidence of an old, corrupt political order and imagined their own laws as rational, proportionate and suited to free citizens. — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026 Miami started 9-8 in the trio's first season together and the road was rocky for much longer than anyone imagined. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 The idea began in Las Vegas more than a year ago, when Gottlieb visited Movado’s ballroom at JCK, saw a new Museum watch and imagined it in rainbow colors. — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 Miami started 9-8 in the trio’s first season together, and the road was rocky for much longer than anyone imagined. — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026 Yet its most acclaimed, and valuable, such set imagined a fictional conflict. — Bob Woods, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for imagined

Adjective

The wealth tax opponents have applied the age-old technique of mustering superficially plausible, but largely imaginary, consequences of passage.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
The genre gave him considerably more freedom to invent architectural settings, mixing classical ruins, waterways, and figures into elaborate imaginary landscapes.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of imaginary

Verb

His loneliness is somewhat mitigated by the other sentient AIs he’s uploaded to his mindspace, envisioned by creator Terry Matalas (Syfy’s 12 Monkeys) as a big white house on a purposefully digital green lawn.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026
Another personal detail of the partnership, meanwhile, is how the duo envisioned these new travel bags being worn.

— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of envisioned

Verb

That kind of visibility could introduce regenerative agriculture to sports fans who’ve never thought much about where their chicken comes from.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2026
On Friday, that thought process took another gigantic step, as those in charge of putting a product on television have all but signed the official paperwork to once again expand the college football playoff.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of thought

Verb

At that same Screentime event, anyone reading between the lines might have guessed that Sarandos was getting antsy with Netflix’s current low-growth status.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
The security technology ditches the old-school password, which can easily be stolen or guessed.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of guessed

Adjective

Gascón will play Manuela, a teacher in an elite school, and Ituño the the role of Evita, the personal secretary to the prime minister of the series’ fictional country.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
The series takes place during the fictional two-term Democratic administration of President Josiah Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of fictional

Verb

Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Mustapha initially believed the film would be driven by its ideas about masculinity, only to discover in the edit that their friendship had become its emotional throughline.

— Essie Assibu, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of believed

Verb

Lukic, whose lab continues to scale up its medium-voltage unit, assumed the killer application for SSTs would be EVs.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
If Cammarata is correct, then mechanistic interpretation may be more effective than many had assumed.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

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