Antonyms for envision


Grammar : Verb
Spell : en-vizh-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈvɪʒ ən


Definition of envision

Origin :
  • 1914, from en- (1) "make, put in" + vision. Related: Envisioned; envisioning. Earlier (1827) is envision'd in sense "endowed with vision."
  • verb conceive
Example sentences :
  • This first, envision it in your mind and you are in the state.
  • Extract from : « The Six Fingers of Time » by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty
  • A trained man could envision a drug that would serve any desired purpose.
  • Extract from : « The Saracen: The Holy War » by Robert Shea
  • One could very well,” one of his biographers declares, “envision him as a knight in full armor leading a troop in the charge.
  • Extract from : « Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark » by Jens Christian Aaberg
  • They could envision the meeting of those problems, and they could envision the obtaining of jungle-plows.
  • Extract from : « The Pirates of Ersatz » by Murray Leinster
  • “I certainly agree with you,” declared Penny, for she could not envision young Ottman as a saboteur.
  • Extract from : « Saboteurs on the River » by Mildred A. Wirt
  • Ken found it hard to envision the Earth stirring with this much life after the destruction that had passed over it.
  • Extract from : « The Year When Stardust Fell » by Raymond F. Jones
  • It was not easy to envision, but he found it impossible to imagine sinking back to his former state.
  • Extract from : « The Forgotten Planet » by Murray Leinster
  • It was powered, equipped, and armed to meet any emergency which Gharlane's tremendous mind had been able to envision.
  • Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • Its surface was a spherical projection of a moving Moebius strip and although he tried to envision the concept, he failed.
  • Extract from : « Voyage To Eternity » by Milton Lesser
  • By the fourteenth century the Turks began to envision the conquest of Bulgaria.
  • Extract from : « Area Handbook for Bulgaria » by Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole

Synonyms for envision

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