envision
verb /ɪnˈvɪʒn/
/ɪnˈvɪʒn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they envision | /ɪnˈvɪʒn/ /ɪnˈvɪʒn/ |
| he / she / it envisions | /ɪnˈvɪʒnz/ /ɪnˈvɪʒnz/ |
| past simple envisioned | /ɪnˈvɪʒnd/ /ɪnˈvɪʒnd/ |
| past participle envisioned | /ɪnˈvɪʒnd/ /ɪnˈvɪʒnd/ |
| -ing form envisioning | /ɪnˈvɪʒnɪŋ/ /ɪnˈvɪʒnɪŋ/ |
- envision something (formal) to imagine what a situation will be like in the future, especially a situation you intend to work towards
- They envision an equal society, free of poverty and disease.
- If you can envision your goals, you can achieve those goals.
Synonyms imagineimagine- think
- see
- envisage
- envision
- imagine to form an idea in your mind of what somebody/something might be like:
- The house was just as she had imagined it.
- think to imagine something that might happen or might have happened:
- We couldn’t think where you’d gone.
- Just think—this time tomorrow we’ll be lying on a beach.
- see to consider something as a future possibility; to imagine somebody as something:
- I can’t see her changing her mind.
- His colleagues see him as a future director.
- envisage (especially British English) to imagine what will happen in the future:
- I don’t envisage working with him again.
- envision to imagine what a situation will be like in the future, especially a situation that you intend to work towards:
- They envision an equal society, free from poverty and disease.
- to imagine/see/envisage/envision somebody/something as something
- to imagine/see/envisage/envision (somebody) doing something
- to imagine/think/see/envisage/envision who/what/how…
- to imagine/think/envisage/envision that…
- (especially North American English) (British English usually envisage)to imagine what will happen in the future
- envision something They didn't envision any problems with the new building.
- envision (somebody) doing something I can easily envision them working together.
- it is envisioned that… It is envisioned that next year the campaign will be rolled out across the country.
- envision that… He envisions that genetic engineering will transform crop yields.
- envision how, where, etc… It's difficult to envision how they might react.
Extra Examples- The work took longer than initially envisioned.
- What level of profit do you envision?
- He envisioned himself dying in a pool of his own blood.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- initially
- originally
- easily
- …
- can
- be difficult to
- be hard to
- …
- envision yourself doing something