Fromidea +-ate(verb-forming suffix).
ideate (third-person singular simple presentideates,present participleideating,simple past and past participleideated)
- To apprehend inthought so as to fix and hold in the mind; tomemorize.
- To generate anidea.
- Coordinate terms:brainstorm,innovate;brainchild(rare)
Fromidea +-ate(adjective-forming suffix).
ideate (notcomparable)
- Produced by anidea.
FromLate Latinideatum. Seeidea.
ideate (pluralideates)
- (metaphysics) The actualexistence supposed tocorrespond with anidea; thecorrelate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
- “ideate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ideate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
ideate
- inflection ofideare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
ideate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative ofidear combined withte
