Synonyms of ideate

ideate

verb

ˈī-dē-ˌāt 

as in to imagine

to form a mental picture of

the psychotic would repeatedly ideate the act of committing murder, and eventually he came to believe his own delusions

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imagine
• envision
• conceive
• see
• visualize
• dream
• envisage
• vision
• fantasize
• picture
• contemplate
• fancy
• fantasy
• conjure (up)
• feature
• conceit
• plan
• image
• ruminate
• daydream
• invent
• hallucinate
• ponder
• meditate
• concoct
• reflect
• muse
• reminisce
• manufacture
• relive
• foresee
• stargaze
• project
• re-create
• make up
• prefigure
• fabricate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ideate

The series officially launched at Bantam Books in 1979 with The Cave of Time, a book by Edward Packard, who had ideated a novel branching-story concept while telling bedtime stories to his daughters. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 May 2026

The actress-turned-media-company owner has long had the grit required to ideate, found, and ultimately sell a near-billion-dollar company that flipped Hollywood’s script on its head. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 May 2026

For example, data scientists across the company recently kicked off their own data science community of practice to collectively ideate on use cases. — Rachel Curry, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2026

Computer then ideates subtasks and assigns them to multiple agents as needed, running the models Perplexity deems best for those tasks. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 26 Feb. 2026

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