Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Imagination

Nouns
  • imagination
  • originality
  • invention
  • fancy
  • inspiration
  • verve. warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy. mind's eye
  • " such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest]. ideality, idealism
  • romanticism, utopianism, castle-building. dreaming
  • phrensy, frenzy
  • ecstasy, extasy
  • calenture etc. (delirium) Insanity
  • reverie, trance
  • day dream, golden dream
  • somnambulism. conception, excogitation, a fine frenzy
  • " cloudland, dreamland
  • flight of fancy, fumes of fancy
  • thick coming fancies" [Macbeth]
  • creation of the brain, coinage of the brain
  • imagery. conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera
  • phantasm, phantasy
  • fantasy, fancy
  • whim, whimsey, whimsy
  • vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza
  • air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky
  • Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland
  • land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon
  • work of fiction etc. (novel) Description
  • Arabian nights
  • dream of Alnashar etc. (hope) Hope. illusion etc. (error) Error
  • phantom etc. (fallacy of vision) [Imperfect vision.] Dimsightedness [Fallacies of vision.]
  • vapor etc. (cloud) [Mixture of air and water.] Bubble [Cloud.]
  • stretch of the imagination etc. (exaggeration) Exaggeration
  • mythogenesis. idealist, romanticist, visionary
  • mopus
  • romancer, dreamer
  • somnambulist
  • rhapsodist etc. (fanatic) Madman
  • castle-buildier, fanciful projector.
Verbs
  • imagine, fancy, conceive
  • idealize, realize
  • dream, dream of, dream up
  • give to airy nothing a local habitation and a give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]. create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate
  • improvise, strike out something new. set one's wits to work
  • strain one's invention, crack one's invention
  • rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains
  • excogitate
  • brainstorm. give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy
  • indulge in reverie. visualize, envision, conjure up a vision
  • fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself
  • suggest itself etc. (thought) Thought.
Adjectives
  • imagined etc. v.
  • air drawn, airbuilt. imagining etc. v., imaginative
  • original, inventive, creative, fertile. romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic. ideal, unreal
  • in the clouds
  • unsubsantial etc. Unsubstantiality
  • illusory etc. (fallacious) Error. fabulous, legendary
  • mythical, mythic, mythological
  • chimerical
  • imaginary, visionary
  • notional
  • fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical
  • whimsical
  • fairy, fairy-like
  • gestic.
Phrases
  • a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]
  • dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum [Horace]
  • imagination rules the world" [Napoleon]