Imagine vs Unimaginably - What's the difference?
imagine | unimaginably |
To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To believe in something created by one's own mind.
To assume.
To conjecture or guess.
To use one's imagination.
(obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
* Bible, Psalms lxii. 3
To an extent or in a way that cannot be, or could not have been, imagined
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 4, Paul Harris, Paul Harris: Frugality is cool in the cash-strapped US, The Observer
, passage=As it prepares to inaugurate a new president, America is also trying to forge a fresh identity in a world unimaginably different from the one inherited by George W Bush only eight years ago. }}
As a verb imagine
is .As an adverb unimaginably is
to an extent or in a way that cannot be, or could not have been, imagined.imagine
English
Verb
- In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined . Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* imaginable * imaginal * imaginary * imagination * imaginativeunimaginably
English
Adverb
(en adverb)citation