Imagination

Definition

imagination / ÇmædʒÇ'neÇʃn / n ၁။ (က) [U, C] စိတ္ကူး ႏိုင္စြမ္း။ စိတ္ကူးစိတ္သန္း။ စိတ္အာ႐ံု။ a vivid imagination ❍ He doesn't have much imagination. ❍ Her talk captured / caught (ie gripped and stimulated) the imagination of the whole class. (ခ) [C] စိတ္ကူးစိတ္သန္း။ စိတ္အာ႐ံု။ In my imagination, I thought I heard her calling me. (ဂ) [U] စိတ္ထင္။ အထင္။ Is it my imagination or have you lost a lot of weight? ၂။ [U] စိတ္ကူး စိတ္သန္း။ His writing lacks imagination. ❍ Use your imagination to find an answer. ❑ imaginative / Ç'mædʒÇnǝtÇv / adj စိတ္ကူးဉာဏ္ရိွေသာ။ an imaginative child / writer / idea / production. ❑ imaginatively adv စိတ္ကူးဉာဏ္ရိွရိွ။ The exhibits were imaginatively displayed.

Examples

1. [have the imagination to do something] : They didn’t have the imagination to deal with such complex problems.
2. [use your imagination] : Try to use your imagination when planning main meals.
3. [lack of imagination] : The speaker’s visual aids showed a remarkable lack of imagination.
4. [vivid/fertile/overactive imagination] : A child with a vivid imagination
5. Was he scared
6. or was it just my imagination?
7. The problem was all in his imagination.
8. Part of my job is to try to stimulate the student’s imagination.
9. [catch someone’s imagination] : Their policies have really caught the public’s imagination.