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Synonyms for idea
aɪˈdi ə, aɪˈdiəidea

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ideanoun

    Synonyms:
    image

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. idea

    Idea is in Greek a form or an image. The word signified in early philosophical use the archetype or primal image which the Platonic philosophy supposed to be the model or pattern that existing objects imperfectly embody. This high sense has nearly disappeared from the word idea, and has been largely appropriated by ideal, tho something of the original meaning still appears when in theological or philosophical language we speak of the ideas of God. The present popular use of idea makes it to signify any product of mental apprehension or activity, considered as an object of knowledge or thought; this coincides with the primitive sense at but a single point — that an idea is mental as opposed to anything substantial or physical; thus, almost any mental product, as a belief, conception, design, opinion, etc., may now be called an idea. Compare FANCY; IDEAL.

    Synonyms:
    apprehension, archetype, belief, conceit, concept, conception, design, fancy, fantasy, ideal, image, imagination, impression, judgment, model, notion, opinion, pattern, plan, purpose, sentiment, supposition, theory, thought

    Antonyms:
    actuality, fact, reality, substance

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. idea

    Synonyms:
    image, notion, conception, belief, doctrine, supposition, understanding, fiction, fancy, thought, opinion, impression, sentiment

    Antonyms:
    object, form, subject, thing, reality

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. idea, thoughtnoun

    the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

    "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"

    Synonyms:
    view, thought, persuasion, theme, thought process, estimate, musical theme, cerebration, approximation, opinion, mind, intellection, mentation, thinking, melodic theme, sentiment, estimation

  2. mind, ideanoun

    your intention; what you intend to do

    "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"

    Synonyms:
    thought, thinker, theme, psyche, musical theme, approximation, estimate, creative thinker, mind, head, melodic theme, nous, judgement, judgment, brain, intellect, estimation

  3. ideanoun

    a personal view

    "he has an idea that we don't like him"

    Synonyms:
    theme, estimate, musical theme, approximation, mind, estimation, melodic theme, thought

  4. estimate, estimation, approximation, ideanoun

    an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

    "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"

    Synonyms:
    theme, appraisal, estimate, musical theme, approximation, bringing close together, estimation, melodic theme, mind, thought

  5. theme, melodic theme, musical theme, ideanoun

    (music) melodic subject of a musical composition

    "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"

    Synonyms:
    theme, musical theme, paper, thought, radical, topic, composition, subject, report, motif, base, approximation, estimate, stem, mind, root, melodic theme, root word, estimation

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ideanoun

    Synonyms:
    [In the Platonic philosophy.] archetype (conceived of as existing from eternity), pattern, model, exemplar, form, essence (common to many individual things and represented by a general term)

  2. ideanoun

    Synonyms:
    universal, concept, conception, notion, general or universal conception

  3. ideanoun

    Synonyms:
    object of thought, image in the mind, mental representation of an object

  4. ideanoun

    Synonyms:
    impression, apprehension, thought, fancy, conceit

  5. ideanoun

    Synonyms:
    opinion, belief, supposition, judgment, sentiment

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ideanoun

    Synonyms:
    conception, notion, opinion, fancy, impression, intention, design

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How to use idea in a sentence?

  1. Alishia May:

    Ideas can not be owned, therefore no one can steal the idea of another.

  2. Dan Gelber:

    For me, it's jolting because, look, I'm Jewish. ... The idea that there are people out there who just are willing to spout out hate simply because who I am, is jolting to anybody.

  3. Jennifer Ignash:

    Without that child, we would have had zero idea where our kids were.

  4. Jerry Hendrix:

    Air Force leadership has failed to balance the idea that quantity has a quality of its own.

  5. Vincent Piazza:

    I felt these two characters were the perfect vehicle to take us on that journey in search of identity, of being in love with the ideas of each other, and being in love with the idea of who each person would want to be.


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