imagination
US: /ˌɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/
UK: /ɪmˌædʒɪnˈeɪʃən/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
imagination /i,mædʤi'neiʃn/- danh từ
- sức tưởng tượng, trí tưởng tượng; sự tưởng tượng
- điều tưởng tượng
- khả năng hư cấu (trong văn học)
- khả năng sáng tạo
- to apply a mythod with imagination: áp dụng sáng tạo một phương pháp
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 [U, C] the ability to create pictures in your mind; the part of your mind that does this: a vivid / fertile imagination + He's got no imagination. + It doesn't take much imagination to guess what she meant. + I won't tell you his reaction-I'll leave that to your imagination. + Don't let your imagination run away with you (= don't use too much imagination). + The new policies appear to have caught the imagination of the public (= they find them interesting and exciting). + Nobody hates you-it's all in your imagination. + (informal) Use your imagination! (= used to tell sb that they will have to guess the answer to the question they have asked you, usually because it is obvious or embarrassing) + His stories really stretch children's imaginations.
2 [U] something that you have imagined rather than sth that exists: She was no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality. + Is it my imagination or have you lost a lot of weight?
3 [U] the ability to have new and exciting ideas: His writing lacks imagination. + With just a little imagination, you could turn this place into a palace. + We are looking for someone with ingenuity and imagination.
Idioms see FIGMENT, STRETCH n.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 mind's eye, fancy; creativity, inventiveness, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, vision, imaginativeness, creative power(s):
His fertile imagination conjured up all kinds of terrifying pictures.
2 thought, thinking, (mental) acuity, intelligence, wit:
It doesn't take much imagination to see why you don't want to go to school this morning.
Collocation
ADJ.
great | active, creative, fertile, vivid | fevered, overactive, overheated
It's just a product of your fevered 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.
| historical, literary
It requires a strong effort of historical imagination to understand the Roman attitude to death.
| human
the powers of the human imagination
VERB + IMAGINATION
have | show | lack
Today's pop music lacks imagination.
| require, take
It does not take great imagination to guess what happened next.
| use
I haven't got a picture of this so you'll just have to use your imagination.
| capture, captivate, catch, excite, fire, inspire, seize, stimulate, stir
Victorian writers fired the popular imagination with their tales of adventure.
| grip, hold
Dinosaurs caught and have held the imagination of us all because they seem like dragons.
| stretch, tax | 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.
| run away with you, run riot/wild
PREP.
beyond (your) ~
misery that is beyond most people's imagination
| in the/your ~
Nobody hates you?it's all in your imagination!
| with/without ~
He was totally without imagination.
PHRASES
a lack of imagination, a figment/product of sb's imagination
The figure vanished as silently as if it had simply been a figment of her imagination.
| not by any/by no stretch of the imagination
Not by any stretch of the imagination could she be called beautiful (= she was definitely not beautiful in any way).
| only your imagination
Is it only my imagination or have you lost weight?
| with a little imagination
With a little imagination you can create a delicious meal from yesterday's leftovers.
Concise dictionary
imaginationsɪ‚mædʒɪ'neɪʃnnoun
+the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
+the ability to form mental images of things or events
+the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
