intransitive verb. To form an idea of; imagine or conceive.

intransitive verb. To conceive mental images; think.

. To form in idea or thought; fancy.

To apprehend mentally so as to retain and be able to recall; fix permanently in the mind.

To form ideas; think.

In metaphysics, produced by an idea, specifically by a Platonic idea; existing by virtue of its participation in an idea.

noun. In metaphysics, the correlative or object of an idea; the real or actual existence correlating with an idea.

transitive verb. To form in idea; to fancy.

transitive verb. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.

verb. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.

verb. To generate an idea.

verb. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

"If your PowerPoint deck contains the word "ideate," cut and do not paste."

ideation  ideational  ideationally  ideative  

create by mental act  create mentally  

daydream  dream  envision  fancy  fantasise  

conceiv  fancy  memorize  

ideated  ideates  ideating