Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to envisage
Participle: envisaged
Gerund: envisaging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | envisage |
| you | envisage |
| he;she;it | envisages |
| we | envisage |
| you | envisage |
| they | envisage |
Perfect
| I | have envisaged |
| you | have envisaged |
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| we | have envisaged |
| you | have envisaged |
| they | have envisaged |
Past
| I | envisaged |
| you | envisaged |
| he;she;it | envisaged |
| we | envisaged |
| you | envisaged |
| they | envisaged |
Pluperfect
| I | had envisaged |
| you | had envisaged |
| he;she;it | had envisaged |
| we | had envisaged |
| you | had envisaged |
| they | had envisaged |
Future
| I | will envisage |
| you | will envisage |
| he;she;it | will envisage |
| we | will envisage |
| you | will envisage |
| they | will envisage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have envisaged |
| you | will have envisaged |
| he;she;it | will have envisaged |
| we | will have envisaged |
| you | will have envisaged |
| they | will have envisaged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | envisage |
| you | envisage |
| he;she;it | envisage |
| we | envisage |
| you | envisage |
| they | envisage |
Perfect
| I | have envisaged |
| you | have envisaged |
| he;she;it | have envisaged |
| we | have envisaged |
| you | have envisaged |
| they | have envisaged |
Imperfect
| I | envisaged |
| you | envisaged |
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| we | envisaged |
| you | envisaged |
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Pluperfect
| I | had envisaged |
| you | had envisaged |
| he;she;it | had envisaged |
| we | had envisaged |
| you | had envisaged |
| they | had envisaged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would envisage |
| you | would envisage |
| he;she;it | would envisage |
| we | would envisage |
| you | would envisage |
| they | would envisage |
Perfect
| I | would have envisaged |
| you | would have envisaged |
| he;she;it | would have envisaged |
| we | would have envisaged |
| you | would have envisaged |
| they | would have envisaged |
Imperative
| you | envisage |
| we | Let's envisage |
| you | envisage |
Verbs conjugated like 'envisage'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'envisage'
ensilage,
reenvisage,
visage,
enavigate,
encage,
encise,
endamage,
enfilade,
engage,
enisle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); equivalent to en- + visage. See: French '
envisager'.
Sample Sentences
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From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. [1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated:]
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Traffic at Dover Marine has developed far beyond anything envisaged when the station was built. The layout has become rather cramped, and prodigies of organisation are performed annually by all concerned to save complete saturation. [1959 October 26, T. W. E. Roche, “Traffic Working at Dover Marine Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 680:]
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The prototype Liner train vehicles on show at Marylebone were not of the ultimate pattern either, for their wagon platform length is 42½ft, whereas 62½ft as envisaged as standard. [1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 262:]
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Cambridge-St Ives was another 1970 victim. Who would have envisaged that £200m would ever be spent on this rural branch to convert it into a guided busway? [2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:]
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Obviously, Schmitt envisaged Nazi Germany as the Reich at the heart of the European great space, which he sought to shield from Anglo-American interference. [2026 January 16, Brendan Simms, “Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2026:]