envisage

Verb

Meaning

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

imagine ideate conceive of include see design image plan feature purpose mean think consider picture divine
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Antonyms

miss err mistake withdrawn confuse confound
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Hypernyms

create by mental act create mentally

Hyponyms

daydream see image project think figure

Related terms

evidence visual visualize visionary visage vision

Derivatives

envisaged envisaging

Examples

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not. Gertrude Stein

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can. Brian Aldiss

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty. John Keats

Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion. Karen Armstrong

The first manifestations of Cubism took people by surprise because their minds, ill-adapted as they are to the idea of movement, are never able, on the basis of what is in front of them, to envisage what is to come. Albert Gleizes

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course. Tiger Woods

Close letter words and terms

envirotyping enviroxime envisagable envisaged envisaged for the future envisagement