英语词汇“imagination”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

imagine /im-ajˈin/

transitive verb

To form a mental image of

To conceive

To think

To believe falsely, to fancy

To conjecture, suppose

To contrive or devise

intransitive verb

To form mental images

To exercise imagination

ORIGIN: OFr imaginer, from L imāginārī, from imāgō an image

imagˈinable adjective

imagˈinableness noun

imagˈinably adverb

imagˈinal adjective

Of or relating to an image

imagˈinarily adverb

imagˈinariness noun

imagˈinary adjective

Existing only in the imagination

Not real, illusory

Of or containing an imaginary number (mathematics)

Non-existent

imagināˈtion noun

imagˈinative /-ə-tiv or -ā-tiv/ adjective

imagˈinatively adverb

imagˈinativeness noun

imagineerˈ noun

Someone who designs and creates a new and imaginative product or piece of technology (orig a person doing such work at a Disney theme park)

transitive verb

To design and create something new and imaginative

imagˈiner noun

imagˈining noun

(in pl) things imagined

imagˈinist noun (Austen)

A person with an active imagination and a tendency to speculate or wonder

imaginary numbers or imaginary quantities plural noun

Non-existent quantities involving the square roots of negative quantities