ideate

Other forms of ideate

past tense

ideated·

present participle

ideating·

third person

ideates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ideate

What does ideate mean?

ideate means "form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case".

How many syllables are in ideate?

ideate has 3 syllables: i-de-ate. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for ideate?

Close synonyms include imagine, conceive of, envisage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ideate a common word?

ideate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.