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v. To form an idea of; imagine or conceive: "Such characters represent a grotesquely blown-up aspect of an ideal man . . . if not realizable, capable of being ideated” ( Anthony Burgess).

verb-intransitive. To conceive mental images; think.

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

v. To generate an idea.

v. To form in idea; to fancy.

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

. To form in idea or thought; fancy.

To apprehend mentally so as to retain and be able to recall; fix permanently in the mind.

To form ideas; think.

In metaphysics, produced by an idea, specifically by a Platonic idea; existing by virtue of its participation in an idea.

n. In metaphysics, the correlative or object of an idea; the real or actual existence correlating with an idea.

v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

"If your PowerPoint deck contains the word "ideate," cut and do not paste."

ideated    ideates    ideating   

create by mental act    create mentally   

fancy    visualize    fantasise    fantasy    woolgather    figure    daydream    foresee    visualise    prefigure   

ideation    ideationally    ideational    ideative   

fancy    memorize    conceiv