| Main Entry: | envisage/envision |
| 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: | 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' |
| Main Entry: | cogitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think deeply about |
Synonyms: |
brainstorm*, cerebrate, chew the cud, conceive, consider, contemplate, deliberate, envisage, envision, figure, flash on, imagine, kick around, meditate, mull over, muse, noodle around, ponder, reason, reflect, ruminate, speculate, stew over |
Antonyms: |
ignore |
| Main Entry: | comprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
Synonyms: |
appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, capiche, catch, click, cognize, conceive, dig*, discern, envisage, envision, fathom, get the picture, get*, gotcha, grasp, have, know, make out, perceive, read, savvy*, see, take in, tumble* |
Antonyms: |
misinterpret, mistake, misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | conceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create |
Synonyms: |
become pregnant, brainstorm, cogitate, consider, contrive, cook up, depicture, design, develop, devise, dream up, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, form, formulate, head trip, image, imagine, make up, meditate, originate, ponder, produce, project, purpose, realize, ruminate, spark, speculate, spitball, think up, trump up, visualize |
Antonyms: |
abort, destroy |
| Main Entry: | concoct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | formulate, think up |
Synonyms: |
ad lib, batch, brew*, compound, contrive, cook up, create, design, devise, discover, dream up, envisage, envision, fabricate, frame*, hatch, invent, make up, mature, originate, plan, plot, prefab, prepare, project, scheme, slap together, throw together, vamp |
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
Synonyms: |
build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up |
Antonyms: |
annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |
| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up fantasy |
Synonyms: |
build castles in air, conceive, dream, envision, fancy, fantasize, hallucinate, imagine, moon, muse, pipe dream, stargaze, trip out, woolgather |
| Main Entry: | extrapolate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infer |
Synonyms: |
anticipate, assume, conclude, deduce, envision, figure, foresee, foretell, guess, hypothesize, make an educated guess, predict, project, see ahead, theorize |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imagine, create |
Synonyms: |
be inclined to think, believe, conceive, conjecture, dream up, envisage, envision, fantasize, feature*, guess, head trip, image, infer, make up, make up off top of one's head, phantom, picture, realize, reckon, spark, spitball, suppose, surmise, think, think likely, think up, trump up, vision, visualize |