Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb imagine

2 senses of imagine

Sense 1
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage -- (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?")
       => create by mental act, create mentally -- (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Sense 2
think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess -- (expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up")
       => expect, anticipate -- (regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow")