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to ideate

to ideate

8.4
To think of new ideas
  • verb
  • /ˈaɪdiˌeɪt/
translation icon : idear
  • As a digital marketing strategist, Jason works with Planit's clients to ideate, execute, measure, and analyze digital marketing strategies.

So when we see something like that, we go from that now Mike and team is ideating to something we call bridge videos.

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Examples

  • Ideate around how to leverage the platform's values to highlight your brand values.

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  • Perhaps, we might ideate outside of the box for an alternative.

  • I have to sit down, come up with a concept in my brain, ideate out the script.

  • I love creating, ideating new things for different, keeping the instrumentation in mind.

  • Most of my writing process is ideating and outlining, and that's a much I don't know.

  • Research shows that individuals imagine or ideate national leaders who are taller than the typical citizen, and election outcomes in the United States substantiate a height-leader connection.

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  • To solve the problem, we need to ideate a range of creative solutions.

  • In our meeting, we will ideate new ways to improve team collaboration.

  • The workshop encourages participants to ideate and share their innovative concepts.

Synonyms

to think
vsto ideate
1.0

To imagine or plan something in your mind

is more specific to creating an image or concept than general thought
to see
vsto ideate
1.0

To picture something in your mind

is the broader term for forming ideas not only quick images
to imagine
vsto ideate
1.3

To form a picture in your mind of something not real

stresses forming an idea or concept rather than only picturing
to envision
vsto ideate
164 4.1

To picture something in your mind, often a possible future

puts emphasis on future possibility compared with general idea formation
to conceive
vsto ideate
74 5.2

To form an idea or plan in your mind

focuses on making an idea or image rather than long development
to conceive of
vsto ideate
33 5.3

To imagine something as possible or real

is used more generally for creating ideas, not only considering possibility
to conceptualize
vsto ideate
12 6.9

To form an idea in your mind about something

is the slightly more general and neutral term for forming ideas
to envisage
vsto ideate
11 6.8

To form a picture in your mind of something not present

is more general and can mean imagining possibilities rather than creating plans
to gestate
vsto ideate
  • Formal
3 7.5

To think about an idea for a long time until it becomes clear

refers to forming an idea immediately or without long internal development

Antonyms

332 3.0

To refuse to accept an idea or claim

100 3.5

Not caring for someone or something that needs care

How Imaginative

to innovate
39 5.5
to ideate
8.4
to conceive
74 5.2
to imagine
1.3
to think of
834 1.0

Surface Forms

ideate infinitive
ideated past
ideated past participle
ideating present participle
ideates third person singular

Morphology

ideate = idea (transparent) = idea + ate

The verb is formed from the noun 'idea' with the productive verbalizing suffix '-ate', so its meaning 'to form or produce ideas' is directly inferable from the base.

Etymology

The word ideate comes from the simple root idea, which means 'thought', and the verb part -ate, which means 'to make'. So to ideate is to 'make a thought' in your mind — to imagine or think up something.