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IDEATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

Example:

Can you conceive of him as the president?

Synonyms:

conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "ideate" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ideate"):

envision; fancy; figure; image; picture; project; see; visualise; visualize (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)

visualise; visualize (form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract)

envision; foresee (picture to oneself; imagine possible)

fantasise; fantasize (portray in the mind)

prefigure (imagine or consider beforehand)

think (imagine or visualize)

fantasise; fantasize; fantasy (indulge in fantasies)

daydream; dream; stargaze; woolgather (have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

idea (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)

ideation (the process of forming and relating ideas)

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