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Synonyms for ideate

Most common

imagine envisage

All synonyms

Verb

Definitions

  1. v. 1

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

Related words

Word family
ideation ideational idealize
Other spellings
ideat

Forms

Past participle
ideated
e.g. ideated → imagined, envisaged…

Example sentences

  • imagine We are never as happy or as unhappy as we imagine.
  • envisage Can you envisage Tom working in a garage?

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
ideaterising
imaginerising
envisagefalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

7 letters
imagine3
8 letters
envisage3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (imagine3 = 3 syllables).