to envisage

Examples

• All

• With the dress rehearsal, the court performance and the public showing, I envisage three.

  The Libertine (2004)

• How do Russians envisage their country's place in the world fifteen or twenty years from now?

  Academic text (2015)

• Can you see, envisage any kind of future where you leave this country?

  andrew gold | heretics.

• If I could envisage a plan, some kind of starting point...

  Small Time Crooks (2000)

• Can we envisage future payments?

  Young, Single & Angry (2006)

• I think I kind of loosely envisage a few different types of people.

• Success has not been as one envisaged yet.

  Come Play with Me (1977)

• It is my desire to foster young men and women who envisage their future in Japan with greater confidence.

  Harvard University

• Even here, the new regimes envisaged stronger roles for the central bank.

  Academic text (2008)

• He could easily envisage a future where technology improves everyone's quality of life.

Synonyms

T

to think

vsto envisage

∞ 1.0

To imagine or plan something in your mind

is narrower, focusing specifically on forming mental images or possibilities

F

to figure

vsto envisage

∞ 3.8

To think about something to find an answer

is about forming a mental picture or possibility rather than calculating or assuming

S

to see

vsto envisage

∞ 1.0

To picture something in your mind

emphasizes possibility or future thinking rather than only mental viewing

I

to imagine

vsto envisage

∞ 1.3

To form a picture in your mind of something not real

adds a sense of possibility or future chance rather than only unreality

P

to picture

vsto envisage

343 2.9

To imagine how something looks

focuses more on imagining possibilities rather than only making visual images

E

to envision

vsto envisage

164 4.1

To picture something in your mind, often a possible future

is broader, covering mental pictures or possibilities not only future ones

P

to project

vsto envisage

142 3.4

To estimate what will happen in the future

focuses more on forming a mental picture rather than planning or estimating likelihood

F

to foresee

vsto envisage

77 3.9

To know or expect something before it happens

is less about predicting events and more about forming mental pictures of possibilities

V

to visualize

vsto envisage

• US

75 3.8

Form a clear picture of something in your mind

is broader and includes imagining possibilities beyond visual detail

C

to conceive

vsto envisage

74 5.2

To form an idea or plan in your mind

is more about picturing possibilities than creating plans or intentions

D

to dream up

vsto envisage

• Informal

38 3.9

To think of a new or unusual idea

is less about creative invention and more about considering realistic possibilities

C

to conceive of

vsto envisage

33 5.3

To imagine something as possible or real

focuses more on visual mental images than on general idea formation

C

to conceptualize

vsto envisage

12 6.9

To form an idea in your mind about something

is more about forming visual possibilities rather than organizing abstract concepts

P

to prefigure

vsto envisage

• Formal

2 7.1

To imagine or think about something before it happens

is broader, covering mental pictures without the specific sense of anticipation

I

to ideate

vsto envisage

8.4

To think of new ideas

is more focused on picturing possible situations than on abstract idea formation

How Clear

to visualize

• US

75 3.8

to picture

343 2.9

to envisage

11 6.8

to imagine

∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology