Image, v. a.
- 1. Form an image of.
- 2. Fancy, picture. See imagine.
Imagery, n.
- 1. Phantasm, phantom, vision, dream, fanciful forms.
- 2. Tropes, figures of speech, figurative language.
Imaginable, a. Conceivable.
Imaginary, a.
- 1. Visionary, ideal, fancied, fanciful, chimerical, dreamy, unreal, illusory, illusive, shadowy, wild, Quixotic,
Utopian.
- 2. Hypothetical, supposed, assumed.
Imagination, n.
- 1. Conception (united with the faculty of recombining ideas so as to form a new creation), invention,
ideality, creative power, plastic power, fancy, fantasy.
- 2. Imaginative faculty, faculty of original conception, faculty of invention, esemplastic faculty, power to
mould the manifold of experience into new unities.
- 3. Imaging power, vision of the past as present or of the possible as actual, reproductive perception,
anticipative perception.
- 4. Mental image, idea, conception, notion.
- 5. Contrivance, scheme, device, plot.
- 6. Illusion, arbitrary notion or supposition, fanciful opinion, fancy.
Imaginative, a. Inventive, creative, plastic, poetical, esemplastic.
Imagine, v. a.
- 1. Conceive, image, fancy, picture, picture to one’s self, figure to one’s self.