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ideate

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As a verb, ideate means apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind. As an adjective, it means produced by an idea.

Meanings of ideate

5 meanings

verb

  1. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.

  2. To generate an idea.

  3. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

    “Can you conceive of him as the president?”

    Similar: imagine, conceive of, envisage

adjective

  1. Produced by an idea.

noun

  1. metaphysicsThe actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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verb: form a mental image of something that is not present or t…
imagineconceive ofenvisage

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