ideate

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
2. verb To generate an idea.
3. adjective Produced by an idea.
4. noun The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

Similar words

conceive conceptualize imagine envisage conceptualise conceive of think ponder apprehend prehend

Often followed by

and or the of about nothing

Word family

ideated ideates ideating