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ideate

US/ˈaɪdieɪt/

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

Verb

ideate (third-person singular simple present ideates, present participle ideating, simple past and past participle ideated)

  1. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
  2. To generate an idea.
    • Two thousand young men and women from across the country had gathered under canvas tents on a public ground for a weekend of ideating and networking.2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 358

Adjective

ideate (not comparable)

  1. Produced by an idea.

Noun

ideate (plural ideates)

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

ideate meaning in Urdu

ideate in Urdu

سوچ میں لانا, تصور کرنا

Forms of ideate

Verb
third-person singular presentideates
present participleideating
past participleideated
pastideated
Noun
pluralideates
alternative formideat

Origin of ideate

From idea + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

From idea + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

From Late Latin ideatum. See idea.

Words formed from ideate

Questions about ideate

What does ideate mean?
Ideate means to apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
What is ideate in Urdu?
Ideate in Urdu is سوچ میں لانا, تصور کرنا. See Ideate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is ideate?
Ideate can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce ideate?
Ideate is pronounced /ˈaɪdieɪt/ (US).
What is the past tense of ideate?
The past tense of ideate is ideated.

Words near ideate in the dictionary

  1. ideas of reference
  2. ideascape
  3. ideascapes
  4. ideasthesia
  5. ideat
  6. ideate
  7. ideated
  8. ideates
  9. ideathon
  10. ideathons
  11. ideatic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ideate (page history and authors); ideate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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