ideate
verb /ˈaɪdieɪt/
/ˈaɪdieɪt/
(specialist)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ideate | /ˈaɪdieɪt/ /ˈaɪdieɪt/ |
| he / she / it ideates | /ˈaɪdieɪts/ /ˈaɪdieɪts/ |
| past simple ideated | /ˈaɪdieɪtɪd/ /ˈaɪdieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle ideated | /ˈaɪdieɪtɪd/ /ˈaɪdieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form ideating | /ˈaɪdieɪtɪŋ/ /ˈaɪdieɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] ideate something to form an idea of something; to imagine something
- [intransitive] to form ideas; to think
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from medieval Latin ideat- ‘formed as an idea’, from the verb ideare, via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’.