envisage

Other forms of envisage

past tense

envisaged·

present participle

envisaging·

third person

envisages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about envisage

What does envisage mean?

envisage means "form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case".

How many syllables are in envisage?

envisage has 3 syllables: en-vis-age. The stress falls on "vis". In IPA it is /ɛnˈvɪzɪdʒ/.

What is another word for envisage?

Close synonyms include imagine, conceive of, ideate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is envisage a common word?

envisage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.