to gestate

Examples

• All

• I am very grateful to both institutions for funding years of fellowship in Rome and in Washington, D.C., where these ideas gestated.

  Academic text (2011)

• Yeah, Occura's been, uh, gestating for... quite a few years.

  Paranoia (2013)

• The idea for the game began to gestate.

  Blog text (25)

• In fact, the film had been gestating for a couple of years, and when you see the film, that's very evident.

  Blog text (27)

• I've got two one acts, a mystery and a musical I've been gestating.

  Rango (2011)

• Stephen King's long-gestating musical theatre collaboration with John Mellencamp, "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," has been on the radar, in one form or another, since 2000.

  Blog text (28)

• Thus, higher education today is still largely in thrall to the ideology of individualistic rationalism gestated in the last third of the nineteenth century.

  Academic text (1993)

• Yet that opposition gestated in, and in part stemmed from, the experience of Neilson (or perhaps Macintosh) seeking to cooperate with the Bairds.

  Academic text (2016)

• The final piece of the puzzle was a car ride with O'Keefe, a classmate and collaborator from his stint in grad school at the Rhode Island School of Design, where the Motown on the radio gave their long-gestating musical collaboration new shape and purpose.

  Blog text (13)

• The team took a year to gestate their new marketing plan before presenting it to the board.

Synonyms

E

to envision

vsto gestate

164 4.1

To picture something in your mind, often a possible future

centers on slow internal growth rather than vivid future images

P

to project

vsto gestate

142 3.4

To estimate what will happen in the future

involves slow internal shaping rather than planning or forecasting

C

to conceive

vsto gestate

74 5.2

To form an idea or plan in your mind

stresses prolonged mental maturation before full realization

P

to premeditate

vsto gestate

• Formal

39 8.1

To think about and plan something before doing it, often a harmful act

describes quiet long development, not deliberate planning for action

C

to conceptualize

vsto gestate

12 6.9

To form an idea in your mind about something

is more about slow incubation toward a finished plan

E

to envisage

vsto gestate

11 6.8

To form a picture in your mind of something not present

focuses on gradual internal development rather than quick imagining

I

to incubate ideas

vsto gestate

6.1

To let ideas grow slowly before you act

emphasizes slow mental development until fully formed

I

to ideate

vsto gestate

8.4

To think of new ideas

involves a slower maturing process over time

How Developed

to finalize

• US

74 3.8

to formulate

59 4.5

to gestate

• Formal

3 7.5

to conceive

74 5.2

to think

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology