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visioned
[vizh-uhnd] 
| Main Entry: |
envisage/envision
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | picture in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, behold, conceive, conceptualize, contemplate, externalize, fancy, feature, foresee, form mental picture of, grasp, have a picture of, image, imagine, look upon, materialize, objectify, predict, realize, regard, see, survey, think up, view, view in mind's eye, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | imagine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dream up, conceive |
| Synonyms: | brainstorm, build castles in air, conceptualize, conjure up, cook up, create, depict, devise, envisage, envision, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, figure, form, frame, harbor, image, invent, make up, nurture, perceive, picture, plan, project, realize, scheme, see in one's mind, spark, think of, think up, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | project |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan |
| Synonyms: | arrange, blueprint, calculate, cast, chart, conceive, contemplate, contrive, delineate, design, devise, diagram, draft, envisage, envision, estimate, extrapolate, feature, forecast, frame, gauge, image, imagine, intend, map out, outline, predetermine, predict, propose, purpose, reckon, scheme, see, think, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | realize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appreciate, become aware of |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, be cognizant of, become conscious of, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive, discern, envisage, envision, fancy*, feature*, get, get it, get the idea, get the picture, get through one's head, grasp, image, imagine, know, pick up*, recognize, see daylight, take in*, think, understand, vision, visualize |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | see |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visualize |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, conceive, divine, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, foresee, foretell, imagine, picture, realize, think, vision |
| Main Entry: | think |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe; anticipate |
| Synonyms: | assume, be convinced, comprehend, conceive, conclude, consider, credit, deem, determine, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, expect, fancy, feature, feel, foresee, gather, guess, hold, image, imagine, judge, plan for, presume, project, realize, reckon, regard, see, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, understand, vision, visualize |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, disregard, excogitate |
| Main Entry: | visualize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a picture of in the mind |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, apprehend, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, conceive of, conjure up, create, divine, dream up, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, foresee, get the picture, image, imagine, object, picture, reflect, see, see in the mind's eye, think, view, vision |
| Main Entry: | envision |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceive |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, behold, conceive, conceptualize, contemplate, envisage, envision, externalize, fancy, feature, foresee, grasp, image, imagine, look upon, materialize, objectify, predict, realize, regard, see, survey, think up, view, vision, visualize |
| Notes: | envisage refers to an image that is delineated, whereas envision can refer to an appearance that is indefinite or immaterial; envisage is 'contemplate or view in a certain way' and envision means 'picture to oneself; visualize' |
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| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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