Envisaged

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have mentally constructed a vision or plan regarding a future event or outcome
2. Formed a mental picture or concept of something that might happen later
3. Created an idea or plan in the mind about what could take place ahead

Etymology: "Envisaged" is the past tense of "envisage," which comes from French "envisager," built from "en" ("in") and "visage" (face). The literal sense is something like "to set in front of the face," so to envisage something was to bring it before one's eyes. That physical image of looking at something directly is what lies behind the modern sense of forming a mental picture of a future possibility. English took the verb from French, and the original Latin root "visus" (seen) connects it to a family of words about sight, such as "vision" and "visible." The French "visage" itself came from Latin "visaticum" (in the sense of appearance), a link to the same sight-based root.

Synonyms: imagined, visualized, conceived, foreseen, anticipated

Antonyms: ignored, overlooked, dismissed, neglected