Ideate

From idea + -ate

Full definition of ideate

Verb

1. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
2. To generate an idea.

Derived terms

• ideation
• ideational
• ideationally
• ideative

Late Latin ideatum. See idea.

Alternative forms

• ideat

Noun

1. (metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.