- imagination
- nounADJECTIVE▪ great▪ active, creative, fertile, lively, rich, strong, vivid▪ fevered, overactive, overheated, wild▪
It's just a product of your fevered imagination!
▪ limited▪a movie of such limited imagination
▪ collective, popular, public▪a popular hero who inspired the collective imagination
▪ visual▪I was no good at art—I have a very poor visual imagination.
▪ artistic, cultural, historical, literary, musical, poetic, political, romantic▪It requires a strong effort of historical imagination to understand the Roman attitude to death.
▪ moral (esp. AmE), religious▪an education that stimulates the moral imagination
▪ human▪the powers of the human imagination
▪ pureVERB + IMAGINATION▪ have▪ show▪ lack▪Today's music lacks imagination.
▪ require, take▪It does not take great imagination to guess what happened next.
▪ use▪I don't have a picture of this, so you'll just have to use your imagination.
▪ captivate, capture, catch, excite, feed, fire, fuel, grab (esp. BrE), ignite, inspire, seize, spark, stimulate, stir▪19th-century writers fired the popular imagination with their tales of adventure.
▪ engage, grip▪ haunt▪The film haunted the imaginations of viewers.
▪ exercise, stretch▪ defy▪The scale of the disaster defied imagination (= was greater than you could imagine).
▪ leave sth to▪As for their reaction, I'll leave that to your imagination!
IMAGINATION + VERB▪ conjure sth up▪His imagination conjured up a vision of the normal family life he had never had.
▪ play tricks on you, run away with you, run riot (esp. BrE), run wild, work▪Was it only her imagination playing tricks on her?
PREPOSITION▪ beyond (your) imagination▪misery that is beyond most people's imagination
▪ in the/your imagination▪Nobody hates you—it's all in your imagination!
▪ with imagination, without imagination▪He was totally without imagination.
PHRASES▪ a lack of imagination▪ a figment of sb's imagination, a product of sb's imagination▪The figure vanished as silently as if it had simply been a figment of her imagination.
▪ by no stretch of the imagination, not by any stretch of the imagination▪Not by any stretch of the imagination could she be called beautiful (= she was definitely not beautiful in any way).
▪ with a little imagination▪With a little imagination you can create a delicious meal from yesterday's leftovers.
▪ a hold on the/sb's imagination▪the Pyramids retain a remarkable hold on the human imagination.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
