Ideate (Verb)

Meaning

Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?".

Classification

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.

Examples

• The team was asked to ideate on what the new company headquarters might look like.
• She struggled to ideate a world where anything other than capitalism reigned supreme.
• Try to ideate a situation in which an animal would prefer to live indoors.
• He found it difficult to ideate a future without his family by his side.
• The writer had trouble trying to ideate an authentic character in her novel.

Synonyms

• Envisage
• Conceive Of
• Imagine

Hypernyms

• Create By Mental Act
• Create Mentally

Hyponyms

• Project
• Foresee
• Fantasy
• Fantasise
• Visualise
• See
• Picture
• Dream
• Figure
• Daydream
• Think
• Fantasize
• Prefigure
• Stargaze
• Visualize
• Image
• Fancy
• Envision

Related Words

• Ideation (noun)
• Idea (noun)